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...delight to Washington gossips last year were the bickerings of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, many of them attributable to the vigorous, Napoleonic methods of its chairman, 50-year-old Charles Hosford Jr. At year's end, however, the commission finally managed the herculean job of fixing 30,000 minimum prices for soft coal produced east of the Mississippi (TIME, Dec. 27). By last week it became apparent that the commission, in its haste, had erred on the side of being too Napoleonic. The Association of American Railroads, whose members burn 22% of U. S. soft coal...
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS (3 Vols.)-Pitirim A. Sorokin - American Book ($15). Herculean survey of world cultural changes in the last 2,500 years. An attempt by a Harvard sociologist, supported by data of 20 U. S. and European researchers, to invalidate and replace the revolutionary theories of Karl Marx, Spengler's gloomy outlook for Western civilization...
With the addition of a stop light on the road, which shifted continually, control of the radiator became a Herculean task. Dr. DeSilva explained that the average driver can stay on the road 64 percent of the time, but some are in the ditch 90 percent of the test. If the car were left to steer itself, it would be in the ditch only 30 percent...
George and Lennie were ranch hands. George was small, wiry, tough, shrewd; Lennie was enormous, floppy-looking but Herculean, and a halfwit. George and Lennie were pals. Lennie was always getting them into trouble, losing them jobs, getting them run out of town because he liked to pet things - mice, little girls, rabbits. Not conscious of his blundering strength, Lennie was apt to kill what he petted. George kept him in line as well as he could by bawling him out, threatening to leave him, telling him a beautiful fairy story about how they would save enough money...
Approach to Unity. Herculean struggle of modern theoretical physics is to find a mathematical system which will handle both the atom and the universe...