Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imagining things? The evidence of Russia's intention is overwhelming. It is stronger than the evidence of German and Japanese intentions in 1937. Communist leaders subscribe to a philosophy that says the whole world must adopt their social and economic system, and "the international soviet shall be the human race." The Communist philosophy says, further, that good men should work like beavers to bring about this world victory of Communism...
Last week, Lieut. General Sir John Harding, British commander in Italy, commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. Cried Rome's newspaper Il Tempo: "General Oreste Bellomo [Italian commander of the Bari garrison during the war] was executed for having killed a British soldier. Human justice is very uncertain and frail...
...Human beings are just not built for flying. But since they insist on flying, they might as well have planes designed to carry them with the least discomfort and danger. So says Harvard's Physiologist Ross Armstrong McFarland. For ten years Dr. McFarland, a stubborn gadfly to the U.S. aviation industry, has scientifically studied the effect of plane design and operation on man, "perhaps the most unstable unit in the entire man-machine relationship." He has also flown a good many miles himself...
Summing up the airplane's anti-human aspects in a weighty book (Human Factors in Air Transport Design; McGraw-Hill; $6), Dr. McFarland concludes that modern planes, for all their silvery slickness and speed, are still dangerous, noisy, uncomfortable and a generally unsatisfactory means of travel...
...McFarland was a wartime consultant to the Navy and the Civil Aeronautics Authority; he also developed tests for selecting and training pilots. He thinks that airplane makers have paid far too little attention to adapting planes to the limitations of the human body. His book examines in detail the punishment that flying inflicts on people...