Word: level
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Machines for Herr Donath. What is left of German industry is working full blast. Production has nearly doubled in a year, is now at 70% of the 1936 level. Coal output has climbed to over 300,000 tons a day. Steel production has risen to a rate of 7,000,000 tons a year...
...middle class, living on fixed or nearly fixed incomes, is ground between the millstones. As a class, its members are tempted toward extinction by two routes: 1) stepping down to an easier way of life on the proletarian level; 2) maintaining their own standards as individuals by not permitting themselves the costly luxury of having children...
...people and the U.S. dollars they were getting under the Marshall Plan had been working hard and to good effect. Production in all key sectors of the nation's economy was substantially higher than in 1947. Agriculture, in spite of bad weather, was up 25% above the prewar level; industry was up 20%. Exports were 34% greater than they were ten years...
...Journal draws a conclusion: "The remarkable point is that as many as one-quarter think that they practice the highest, transcendent form of love-love of one's enemy . . . These figures are dramatically incompatible with the facts of American behavior as revealed on every level of national existence today...
Civilian scientists (many of them financed by the military) are helping. A group at the University of Chicago has discovered that pressure waves in the high atmosphere are different from those at lower levels. When the waves are comparatively short and fast-moving, they usually lead to nasty weather below. At M.I.T. and elsewhere, meteorologists are clocking high-level winds and trying to find out what makes them speed so fast. Most of the information comes from "sounding balloons," but a little is trickling in from rockets, which bring back important figures from 60 miles straight...