Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recommended that the Government with draw its cash support of cotton prices. In place of this political handout, Secretary Wickard proposed a nonpolitical plan to end the lopsided one-crop economy of the South. His proposal: let the Government pay growers a direct subsidy in stead of the present indirect subsidy of the parity system (TIME, Oct. 9), which gives growers "loans" of 20? a lb., at the present parity price...
...When all indirect costs (airline overhead) are added, plus profit, Boeing estimates the total cost at only 2¼? a passenger-mile, 11? a ton-mile, well under even the most optimistic postwar airline rates tentatively set for transatlantic travel (TIME...
...hindrance to speedy reconversion. At the war's end the whole obstacle must be bodily removed as quickly as possible, even though this will wrench loose a sensitive and complicated network hooking together the Government with more than 17,000 direct suppliers and some 70,000 indirect producers. Dr. Kaplan recommends swift and persistent surgery, that war contracts be cut out as rapidly as possible in the time that remains...
...that, too, was an indirect gain for the Allies. The German who fights at Anzio is not available for Russia or for western France. And for Germany, at this stage of the war, the soldier who dies at Anzio cannot be replaced...
...Digest's capsule theory of life and its assumption that any piece of writing can be improved by extracting every seventh word, like a tooth. We have occasionally been embarrassed to see our stuff after it has undergone alterations. . . . Mostly, however, we object to the Digest's indirect creative function, which is a threat to the free flow of ideas and to the independent spirit...