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...aside a $4,000,000 reserve (TIME, Nov. 17), it is thinking of the day when the war will be over. With a backlog of $500,000,000 and less than $25,000,000 in capital, United is financing its roaring business out of sales. But when those Gov ernment checks stop arriving, it will have to have more capital. There will be conversion and development expenses. And United may want to buy the $40,000,000 worth of plants the Government has been building...
...extremists set out to restore the military aristocracy, to dominate the Gov ernment, to make the sacrosanct Emperor what the brilliant former editor of the Kobe Japan Chronicle, A. Morgan Young, has called - since he left Japan in 1937 -the "Grand Mascot" of warriors rather than of monopoly capitalists...
...week's end, Secretary of War Stimson hinted that "diplomatic steps" were being taken to assure adequate defense for the "southern anchor" of the new Atlantic defense line. Rumors flew that negotiations with The Netherlands Gov ernment in London were under way for base sites in Dutch Guiana. Curagao. It looked as if President Roosevelt might be getting ready to step from the wings with an announcement...
...Willamette, following the valleys of the Kaw, the Platte, the Sweetwater, the Snake and the lordly Columbia; fording streams . . . suffering hunger, thirst and sickness aggravated by strange diets and exposure - and leaving thousands of un marked graves beside the trail." Their trek, said McNary, was no Gov ernment project. "Land, if you had to work it, never was free. Men paid for it in sweat and blood and loneliness, if not in dollars." Their pioneering achievements were possible because "Americans had not then been instructed that they must look to Washington for inspiration and sanction for their every act. . . . What...
...present births are somewhat above replacement level. But since the trend in the birth rate has been downward for the past hundred years, in a generation births will be from 20 to 35% under re placement level. The elements of a popu lation program are contained in the Gov ernment's interest in public education, housing, recreation facilities, health & welfare organizations - all of which lessen the economic burden of having children. But these programs are all uncoordinated. Because "in an industrial society large families lead inevitably to lower levels of living for all but a few favored parents," Frederick...