Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Self-criticism is a near-fetish in the new army. ". . . We are training under tactical regulations and with materiél that are almost wholly obsolete,'' Major General Lynch wrote in the current Infantry Journal. "There should be no hesitancy in moving at once to a radical revision. . . ." Beneath the static military crust, new tactics, weapons, strategies are in the making. At the Air Corps' experimental Wright Field are such men as Major Carl F. Greene, whose wing designs largely made possible the modern monoplane, whose new pressure cabin is carrying military and commercial aviation into...
Russians who wanted facts turned from this fighting budget speech to a meaty report Commissar Zverev made in the official publication Bolshevik. In this, Commissar Zverev blames on his purged predecessor, Grigory Grinko, four major shortcomings in Soviet finance: 1) persistently low purchasing power of the ruble; 2) long arrears in salaries which the State owes to personnel of the Motor & Tractor Stations (some have been unpaid for as much as two years); 3) closing by the State of a total of 26,000 Soviet savings banks and institutions; 4) chaotic conditions in the Soviet tax system...
...figures with broad brush strokes, Commissar Zverev reported that: 1) the State's revenues would be 125,184,000,000 rubles (of which 83,000,000,000 rubles is to come from turnover taxes); 2) the State's expenditures would be 123,684,000,000 rubles (major items: 47,000,000,000 rubles for "financing the national economy," 27,000,000,000 for military and naval expenses); 3) a surplus for the year of exactly 1,500,000,000 rubles...
...Government has no broadcasting station of its own. When U. S. officials want to broadcast their departmental achievements, they have to go to the Washington studios of the major networks. If the Government should announce that it was about to set up its own radio station, political razors might begin flying through the air. But last week, when the Government opened its first broadcasting studio in Washington, all was quiet along the Potomac. For the studio is not a station. Its programs must be wired to Washington's commercial stations, broadcast through regular commercial channels...
...Testament, with special emphasis on Moses (who, thinks Freud, was Egyptian, not Jewish); his theme, that the Bible is an unconscious expression of man's own fears and aspirations. (This thesis he first broached 25 years ago in Totem and Taboo, one of the six major works included in the Modern Library Giant.) Freud calls his prospective book one of his most important, expects of it no less far-reaching effects on contemporary religious thought than the invention of psychoanalysis had on contemporary culture generally...