Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British when he landed in England last July-how they would fight to the last American, etc., etc. Six months later he was ready to admit that the British had a few good points: after bailing out of a flaming Fortress over Tripoli, he remembered enough of an R.A.F. pamphlet on how to find food and water in the desert to get back to his outfit. For the next four months, Navigator Rosenson had a birdman's-eye-view of the British at work in Tunisia. Back in London last week, he was singing new words...
...Keynes proposals are contained in a 24-page pamphlet obtainable from offices of the British Information Services in New York, Washington, Chicago and San Francisco...
Wielder of the haymaker was able Harold Glenn Moulton, head of the Brookings Institution (famed for its economic studies), who wrote a 93-page pamphlet, The New Philosophy of Public Debt, to prove that deficit spending and boundless public debt lead either to totalitarianism or to debt repudiation; that without "a stable system of public finance ... in the U.S., and also in other countries, the foundation stone for international reconstruction will rest on quicksand...
Harold Moulton's pamphlet attacks only the theory of deficits without limits, does not attack all government deficit spending. He does not try to prove that government debt is bad; he does insist that it must be controlled. In doing so he has given enthusiastic spenders plenty to think about, plenty to answer...
From the New York State College of Agriculture came a 32-page pamphlet of recipes and menus, prodigal with suggestions. The list of edible weeds was enthusiastically expanded: milkweed, stinging nettle, amaranth pigweed, sow thistle, skunk cabbage ("cooking reduces offen-siveness"), toothwort, hog peanut, yellow goatsbeard, spatterdock...