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Schrödinger is a mathematical mystic. Says he: "There is no worldly truth but mathematical truth. In politics, history and diplomacy, truth changes from day to day and people get different concepts of right. But mathematics never...
...summer of 1939, with World War II only days away, Davis was at his summer home in Mystic, Conn., writing the last chapters of a mystery novel for the Saturday Evening Post. He was a respected, reasonably successful author. He had his summer home, and a winter apartment on Manhattan's Morningside Heights, a wide circle of literary and bridge-playing friends. He also had the free lancer's occupational psychosis: worry over when the well would...
Inside the palace of the Aga Khan at Poona, wizened, rebellious, mystical Mohandas K. Gandhi last week began his tenth hunger strike since 1918. At the age of 74, Gandhi said that he planned to live on a diet of fruit juice and water for 21 days.* He embarrassed the British, who have branded Gandhi as a traitor at worst, a troublesome mystic at best. For his own Congress party followers (including at least 60,000 who have been arrested since last August) the fast was an effort to bolster sagging morale and stiffen the fraying fibers of resistance...
...brain to apply OPA's reasoning to other economic data. For instance, in the boom year of 1929 the cost of living was 27% above the depression year of 1932. Multiplying the national income in 1932 (which roughly represents net production) by this percentage, one arrives at the mystic figure of $11 billions, represented by the middle block above. This is the amount of money which the American public apparently "saved" through falling prices and the worst depression in history. Conversely, between 1932 and 1942 the cost of living in the U.S. rose by 19%. Applying this...
...public that it is going to have to sacrifice for the war effort, last week released an ingenious chart to the U.S. press which seemed to prove just the opposite. Part of the chart is the block reproduced at the left of the above diagram inscribed with the mystic number: $6 billions. According to OPA this is the amount which U.S. citizens have been "saved" through the fact that prices did not rise as rapidly as they did during the last...