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...possibilities are limitless! Thanks be unto TIME for a very useful new label (and for a consistently interesting magazine...
...sister ship Macon was ditched in the Pacific in 1935. Then, on May 6, 1937, the biggest dirigible of all, the hydrogen-filled German Hindenburg, blew up and burned at Lakehurst, NJ. For a while the world all but gave up lighter-than-air craft. Later, using its almost limitless supply of nonflammable helium to keep the ships aloft, the U.S. began to concentrate on nonrigid blimps. With their flexible, rubberized skins, they seemed to ride through rough weather far more safely than their rigid predecessors. They became a valuable link in the chain of antisub and early-warning defense...
...technical missions, particularly in Asia and Africa. Wherever they go, from starting a new medical school in Saigon to establishing a home economics department at the University of Baroda. India, they meet Howard alumni, who know the U.S. and understand what it is trying to accomplish. The horizons are limitless, says President-elect Nabrit. "As we seek to win the friendship of uncommitted areas, Howard plays a major role...
Still most governments, as Parkinson says, are too blockheaded to learn it. The power to tax creates the illusion of limitless income, and nations blissfully spend themselves into bankruptcy. France's Ancien Regime bled its life away in red ink before a single head fell under the guillotine...
...vigor of a country, says Parkinson, since the proceeds are almost totally wasted. In the old unsophisticated days, kings spent the money on banquets and concubines, and then biology, at least, imposed fiscal limits. But the modern bureau with its research analysts and printing presses gobbles up limitless funds -with no fun to show for it. The life cycle of a bureau is ruled by one law: "It spends and therefore is." In one of the skits with which Author Parkinson enlivens his chronicle, he pictures a breathless female statistician rushing in to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture...