Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the formation of this National Military Establishment some of the public inter-service bickering which preceded the passage of the act has quieted down, but the fight continues full throttle on the Washington level. Most of the service squabbles have new crystallized around the drawing-up of the defense budget, the question of appropriations rapidly breaking down into the ever-present problem of the specific wartime jobs of the three services. The duplication in equipment and personnel resulting from this unsettled question of military functions has been estimated to have jumped the total proposed defense appropriation...
Last year the services attempted to end their fights at a pair of high-level conferences, with civilian and military leaders meeting at Key West in March and Newport in December to try and thrash out their differences. These meetings soon degenerated into horse-trading sessions, in which the Joint Chiefs worked out just enough of their problems to enable them to submit a budget to the President. The Navy finally got its long-desired 58,000 ton carrier, more or less as part of a deal in which the Air Force took over all strategic bombing and the Army...
Every week, U.S. hams casually talk to hams behind the Iron Curtain. Usually the topics discussed are politically innocuous: the weather, detailed descriptions of radio equipment, sometimes the moves in a chess or checker game. Even in presidential years, hams avoid politics. Their mutual passion for radio appears to level most cultural, racial, political and religious differences...
Canant's course, "Science and General Education at the College Level" deals with the problems of teaching General Education Science...
...there was also a demonstration--a quiet and amiable demonstration of willingness to hear Marxist theories from a German Communist. There could be little doubt that the vast majority of Eisler's listeners disagreed emphatically with practically everything he said. Yet there were no outbursts of protest, no low-level practical jokes, no heckling...