Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...division of missions among the Army, Navy and Air Force was a matter of Biblical simplicity: the Army's domain was the land, the Navy's the sea, the Air Force's the air. Missiles upset this neat and workable pattern. To Army eyes, missiles are essentially artillery. The Air Force considers them unmanned planes. Navymen see them as modifications of carrier planes and battleship guns. Fearing loss of missions, prestige and even existence, the three services have scrambled fiercely for shares of the missile field. Result: three missile programs that duplicate and even triplicate each other...
Among the ragged populace scrabbling through Germany's ruins in desperate search for a single potato, and for that matter among leaders in most of the world's capitals, there were few who had much to say in those days about free enterprise. It was an idea that the Germans themselves had spurned from the moment Bismarck seized on the 19th century Economist Friedrich List's protectionist ideas to the hour that Hjalmar Schacht's totalitarian Autarkic collapsed with Hitler. U.S. experts laughed after listening to Erhard's spouting, or felt sorry for the pathetic...
...great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that, from our very prison, we should draw from our own selves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness...
Life in capitalist countries was subject matter for a fourth theme. Usually set in America, these stories claimed that "every honest man is a communist and the rule is in the hands of Wall Street. There is an ever-sharpening class struggle which will reach its climax in the communist world revolution in the capitalist countries...
Harris said last night that the committee had felt that credit relaxation would be a matter of "playing by ear." He felt, however, that such relaxation was imperative, as the economy is showing "signs of recession." Under the tight money policy, he said, the national product has not been increased at 3% a year, the rate necessary to prevent unemployment...