Word: levell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had heard all about the Brannan plan, and what they had heard made them uneasy. At first blush, the plan sounded fine. Market prices on perishables would be allowed to drop to their natural level, thereby pleasing the consumers. The Government would pay the difference to the farmer, giving him higher subsidies than he now got, thereby tickling the farmer too. And yet all this probably wouldn't cost the taxpayer any more than the present farm program because the Department of Agriculture would so skillfully estimate crop needs and so carefully rig subsidy prices that the nation...
Uniforce looks exactly like a command headquarters, although it has no troops to command. Most of the concrete progress at Fontainebleau has been on the technical level. Map work and photographic interpretation have been standardized, as well as some technical equipment, such as naval couplings, which will permit ships of all Western Union navies to refuel one another at sea. The metric linear measure system has been accepted by Western Union artillery, but centigrade has not yet triumphed over Fahrenheit. Basic manuals for all Western Union forces will be published. The five sovereign nations have not, however, exchanged their secret...
England was in spiritual chaos after its revolt from the Church of Rome, and men were attracted to a moral code which was based on such undeviating symbols as the level, the compass and the plumb. The Masons conceived of God as "The Great Architect of the Universe." The "G" in Masonic emblems can stand for God and/or Geometry. Euclid and Pythagoras became the order's patron saints...
Army Chief of Staff General Omar N. Bradley, attending top-level military conferences in White Sulphur Springs, took time out for golf with two other big guns: Under Secretary of Defense Stephen T. Early and Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg...
Slichter thought that, paradoxically, production would keep going down through July. That would make people feel more pessimistic than ever. Said Slichter: "The revival will start . . . while gloom is still thick and while the price level is still falling . . . Each month that consumption exceeds production strengthens the foundation for recovery...