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Walter Lippmann shrewdly pointed out one basic flaw in Taft's reasoning: that other nations may actually refuse to accept the direct U.S. loans which are Taft's alternative to the Fund-Bank proposals...
...Nation Could Feel Safe. . . ." The greatest flaw in Professor Oberth's gyro-steered product is its inaccuracy. Inventor Hammond dismisses current buzz-bombing as a form of "making faces, beating drums and throwing stink bombs." But Hammond, himself the inventor of a radio-controlled glider bomb, predicts that with radio devices steering the projectile from several different points to correct each other's errors, the robot bomb will become "quite dangerous." Experiments have shown, says he, that it is very difficult to interfere with radio control of a projectile; radio interference may even attract the missile...
Ubico's famous Ley de Probidad (Law of Honesty) requires officials to register their property on taking office, explain each new acquisition. It has undoubtedly enforced a kind of terrified probity among underlings, but it has one flaw: in practice, it does not apply to Ubico. On becoming President, he declared himself worth $89,000. Now he owns 75,000 acres, is the largest individual landholder in Guatemala. Much of his property is valuable coffee and sugar land. He lists his acquisitions under the Ley de Probidad at ludicrous valuations. No one dares to challenge his figures...
...hard to decide whether "That's A-Plenty" is better than "Ugly Child" or senseless since both rank way up near the top. Brunis plays that trombone through chorus after chorus of the fastest New Orleans march tempo imaginable without a noticeable flaw. Wettling furnishes some especially tasteful background drumming on the wood blocks, and Davison is again at his peak...
Hope Dashed. There was only one flaw: war industry (synthetic rubber, explosives, etc.) is the big consumer of alcohol today, not hair tonic. And there is not enough alcohol. Smart sugarmen in Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean have converted all sugar possible into liquor instead of into the good alcohol base, blackstrap molasses. Reason: they get about $1 (800%) more a gal. Last month Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley tried to force Cuban producers back into the molasses and industrial-alcohol business by limiting the amount of potable alcohol the U.S. would import...