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Concluded the gloomy Dane: "The question is ... whether to employ the expensive treatment at mental hospitals, or preferably, to refer the patients to the less expensive public temperance institutions, or to leave them entirely without treatment. The figures of this study rather support this last suggestion...
...crucial battle for Berlin was being fought in the hearts and minds of Berliners-but first & foremost in their bellies. The Russians were attempting to starve into submission 2½ million people in the city's Western sectors. They had been driven to employ a weapon which disgraced them before the civilized world. The Americans and the British were trying to feed the two million Berliners-by air. The G.I.s called it "Operation Vittles...
...Either we shall employ our strength, power and conscience boldly and righteously in defense of human dignity and freedom or we shall waste those reserves for peace and default to the forces that breed new wars ... If the United States ever again stoops to expedients ... if we cringe from the necessity of meeting issues boldly ... if we are to scamper from crisis to crisis, fixing principles and policies to the change of each day, we shall place ourselves supinely and helplessly at the mercy of any aggressor who might play on our public opinion and decimate our forces at will...
...road of social criticism must always be lonely," pontificates glib Pundit Max Lerner in the introduction, "it need not be made bitter as Dante's exile." But Veblen-who was as different from Dante as Bernard Shaw is from Pope Pius-was not an easy man to employ or encourage. His conspicuous love of lechery caused him to be fired first from the University of Chicago, then from Leland Stanford. Hired as an economist by the U.S. Food Administration in World War I, he coolly proposed, says Lerner, "to do away with the merchants in the country towns...
...Congressmen, Forrestal's chiefs of staff explained in astonishing detail how they would employ the military establishment which he proposed. A little more than a quarter of a million troops would have to be used in occupation and garrison duties. Alaskan forces should be increased from 7,000 to 15,000 combat and air-service troops. The balance (510,000) would be the nation's ready force, whose various missions would be to repulse an invasion, deny nearby bases to the enemy, secure faraway bases for the Air Force...