Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparently, all Ford's growth has not yet run its course. Aldous Huxley, in his picture of the future, "Brave New World," paints a modernized world where one of the Gods is Ford; that surely, will be the final step in a great career. Perhaps it will be well to close this with a hymn, devoutly brought to us out of the future by Mr. Huxley; the emphasis on "human values" is quite evident in this hymn...
...behavior of the smallest known units of matter and light, only to discover that their movements are unpredictable. This "complexity of small-scale events," leads Dr. Compton toward resolving the dilemma of freedom v. law, which is "as essential to the welfare of science as it is to the growth of religion." If a little photon of light can move capriciously, so can man by exercise of will. Thus Dr. Compton sees "the whole great drama of evolution as moving toward the goal of personality, the making of persons, with free, intelligent wills, capable of learning nature's laws...
...this was fortunate for motormen not only from the standpoint of profits but of privileges. The motor industry has become the prize pupil in Franklin D. Roosevelt's school of Recovery. The growth of automobile business helps to relieve unemployment, helps to keep the steel mills busy, helps to use up the surplus of gasoline, helps to make profits for manufacturers of tires and many another accessory. For all these things the Administration is thankful. Some of its gratitude was publicly acknowledged last month when the automobile code came up for renewal. Motormen were determined to continue the merit...
...producers can submit to control by the consumers, whose interest in a low price is exactly opposed to the producers' interest in a high price; the second rests on the elimination of the profit motive from production. The first overlooks the fact of technological unemployment, and postulates that machine growth which makes total and paid employment an impossibility, can run parallel to government control which makes total and paid employment an ideal; the second is based on technological unemployment, and on the gradual reduction of labor which machine development will bring...
...importance of all this cannot be overemphasized. America has been an expanding, jubilant, barbarically confident country, with a whole untouched continent to exploit. In this milieu the dominant fact was economic growth and amassing of wealth. Naturally this became the American ideal, most blatantly expressed by the American Magazine (properly named, indeed.) The movies early responded to this and provided the delectable pleasures of Park Avenue, the European resorts, and all that goes with them under a rosy hue. It was all represented as a glorious Paradise right here on earth...