Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beset by its own labor shortages, the Santa Fe desperately sent whistling freights shuttling back & forth across the dusty prairies. At Enid, Okla., lean, hard-driving Foreman Tom Ingles set a goal of switching a car a minute, and made...
...inflationary spending. But Mr. Morgenthau torpedoed his own argument by garbling the fiscal facts. In arguing that the U.S. must pay for 50% of the war out of current taxes, he plainly implied that unless he got his big tax bill the U.S. would fall far short of this goal. Congress ignored him and passed a mere $2.1 billion tax bill...
...vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent but lesser similar events, established itself among various peoples and produced that formation of coulisses which forever lures and leads onwards the traveler in time. . . . We have sounded the well of time to its depths, and not yet reached our goal: the history of man is older than the material world which is the work of his will, older than life, which rests upon his will. . . . The original human soul is the oldest thing . . . for it has always been, before time and before form, just as God has always been...
...Destruction. The 9th had done the job: Cherbourg was sealed off. Around it the Germans had most of three divisions and some Marines. How long could they hold out? The U.S. troops turned north, began to fight out the answer. This week they were within eight miles of their goal, shelling...
Maier concluded that the behavior of a completely frustrated creature differs from that of a normal one not in degree, as most psychologists have supposed, but in kind. Normally, a human being prevented from getting what he wants either finds a way around the obstacle or gives up his goal in favor of an attainable substitute. But a thoroughly thwarted individual loses all reasoning capacity and attacks his obstacle like a blindly baffled rat. The more he is punished, the stronger his fixation becomes...