Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad cars - that talk made Coordinator Davies twice as mad. Since June he had been needling the defense Transportation Division to find them. New Dealers believed Pelley's surplus was strictly a product of the slide rule; i.e., that he was figuring a surplus of 20,000 if all round trips were speeded up to 20 days. No, said the A.A.R. stubbornly, we mean idle tank cars sitting at sidings for weeks at a time. A questionnaire had revealed them a year ago, a May survey had substantiated the number, and so had a "random" survey...
Eichelberger: The gloves are off on this thing. I'm a careful man, but I'm mad now, Senators...
Eichelberger: Okay. I'm mad and here...
Then Eichelberger told a story that made members of the committee mad too. His alunite process has been approved by the Bureau of Mines and OPM's own technical staff, has been used successfully in Japan. But 0PM, which has persistently favored the process used by Aluminum Co. of America, cold-shouldered Eichelberger from the start...
...fear and reason in contempt. They lost faith in progress, protested against life itself. The toughest of them remained within their urban prison, cultivating the stoic pose of the dandy, who scrutinized putrescence through a monocle. "To the real artist it was almost necessary to be blasphemous or mad." Indeed, "the 19th Century left the defense of primary values to madmen." Much of Allott's thesis is summed up in that arresting sentence. And pointing to such diverse phenomena as Tarzan and T. S. Eliot, he argues that 19th-Century romanticism persists to this...