Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delusion & Fraud. A compromise $2.7 billion foreign-aid bill, authorizing around $500 million less than the President had originally requested, finally emerged from the recalcitrant, economy-minded House. It very nearly died in the process. Iowa's truculent H. R. Gross came within five votes of relegating the bill once again to a Senate-House conference with the stipulation that the U.S. cut off aid to Poland as long as that country continues to trade with North Viet Nam. By some adroit parliamentary legerdemain, House leaders delayed a final tally until they could persuade a crucial handful of members...
...other industrial society (in 1960, European workers, for example, roughly reached the level of output attained by the American worker in 1925). In 1917, the U.S. farm worker could feed eight people; today, he feeds 40. In 1917, when the U.S. population was 103 million, the nation's gross national product was about $75 billion (in prices adjusted for inflation) compared with about $800 billion now, for a population of roughly 200 million...
...just over the horizon, along with a gross national product that seems likely to top a trillion dollars by the early 1970s, is an array of new machines, teaching methods, foods and other tools that will help man cope with such compelling problems. The next 50 years promise to provide even further evidence that the capitalist system is the most productive in human history...
...report suggests a few. For example, "a series of giant space-research programs with largely unattainable goals." Or an "Unarmed Forces" might be created out of the existing military establishment, a "giant Peace Corps engaged in social welfare activities on a global scale." Another possible war surrogate is "gross pollution of the environment. The poisoning of the air, and of the principal sources of food and water supply, is already well advanced, and at first glance would seem promising in this respect. But the pollution problem has been so widely publicized in recent years that it seems highly improbable that...
...lives for more than two centuries, we are all complicitous unless we actively withdraw our consent from society, or deny ourselves its protections--of which the 2S deferment is the first to come to mind. Regrettably or not, very few of us have done that; this exposes as a gross version of cowardice (and as untoward naivete) our arrogant projection of dissident heroism onto the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Nor are fishing expeditions into University investments or sources of funds likely to hed much light on the matter...