Word: instrumental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instrument laboratory, all but two are under...
...country as people moved west they needed self-confidence to cope with floods, earthquakes, Indians, etc., so they boasted about their strength and courage to give themselves self-confidence. . . . A tradition of boastfulness was established and it continues." Later Miss Caddick remarked that every U.S. child has a musical instrument. Miss Morley quickly corrected...
...chosen instrument for the purge was one Otha D. Wearin, then billed as a red-hot New-Dealing Congressman, now a red-hot anti-Fourth Termer...
...postwar air policy.* A determined 17 of the 19 U.S. airlines are certain that the keystone of that U.S. policy should be wide-open competition on foreign routes. Quietly but persistently, Pan American's famed president, Juan Terry Trippe, has opposed this stand, urging instead the "chosen instrument" policy (TIME, Nov. 8). This week, pinko Author Matthew Josephson (The Robber Barons, The Politicos) entered the controversy with a new book, Empire of the Air (Harcourt, Brace; $3). In trying to decide between the two views, Author Josephson has adopted a historical method: to determine whether competition or the "chosen...
Long and Rough. For Pan Am's "chosen instrument," which Josephson contends is but "air imperialism" and the breeder of future international troubles, Josephson would substitute a modified freedom of the air, corresponding in a general way with freedom of the seas, i.e., a system giving all nations equal access to airports. He argues that the U.S., because of its need for overseas bases, would have much to gain by this system and little to lose. But he is not optimistic about the ease of establishing a workable freedom of the air. The U.S. has, willy-nilly, placed...