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...basis of demand ten years hence (and write off some of the losses as "flood control"). The utilities had to restrict their planning to two or three years ahead, to be reasonably sure of their market. One way or the other, it looked as if the U.S. would lick the power shortage, though the debate on how to do it would go on for months...
...into action. Members' speeches, once buried in the back of newspapers, now make the front pages. Some school districts have taken an interest in trustee elections for the first time in years. Others have even voted to raise their own school taxes. Toy doesn't expect to lick the whole problem once & for all. Says he: "Interest will die down, and the schools will deteriorate. That will be the time for someone to start the cycle all over again...
...quickly the practice of conservation will spread throughout the world, U.S. soil men cannot say. But they do say that the obstacles are economic and social, not technical. Science can stop most kinds of soil deterioration and will surely lick the rest. For the Neo-Malthusian scare-dogma that the world's soil must inevitably lose its productiveness, the soil men have a one-word answer: bunkum...
...read your review of The Lost Art of Profanity [TIME, Sept. 27] with a sensation of pain and disappointment. Was it not enough that the devil should get in his lick with the author? Must the satanic literary abnormalities of Burges Johnson and Henry Mencken be flaunted by TIME? . . . PAULINE B. WHITE Lancaster...
...Freeman goes down to the second floor to make up the editorial page, then gets in another lick at George Washington until 11, when "my secretaries put me to bed" on an office couch for 15 minutes. After his nap he sees visitors (his secretary says radio listeners sometimes drop in just to look at the great man) until 11:55, when he heads for the radio station again and his noon broadcast...