Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasoning was simple and logical. Gov ernment agencies do 10.001 jobs, from building battleships to advising farmers about the pink bollworm. But they all do one thing in common: spend money. A Budget Bureau should be in an ideal position to survey and coordinate the whole activity of the Government, inquiring into purposes and projects, checking performances, uncovering and eliminating extravagance, duplication, confusion...
...businesses. Should the veterans feel they were replaced "in civilian life on the basis of the accidents of geography or birth, there will be many who will become frustrated and embittered-particularly if the general level of prosperity should fall," and we should have departed further from the American ideal and abetted a caste society which "is one of potential danger of eruption, danger for the liberty...
Brass was ideal for cartridge and shell cases: it was easily worked, springy and slick and handled well in the gun. In World War I there was no necessity to mother a substitute. But World War II fire power is dizzily high; the U.S. produced more machine guns in one month of this year than in all of the last war. In February alone almost two million high-explosive shells were turned out, and almost one and a quarter billion cartridges. Brass could not keep up; one big cartridge plant (now changed over to steel) was slowed almost...
...spectacular trial in which he successfully defended a boy accused on circumstantial evidence of murder. After the case, Figari abandoned law, devoted the rest of his days to painting. In 1912, aged 51, he published a work on esthetics, El Arte, la Estética y el Ideal...
Though he deplores unnecessarily early deaths from heart disease and advises all precautions to prevent them, Dr. Steincrohn thinks heart disease is the ideal way to die. It should be "the grand climax of life, and it ought to occur near the conclusion of the last act-at about 80 or 90 years...