Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could you give me additional information about this paradox of a big contraceptive plant in a country whose leaders preach fertility...
...Paradox of first-quarter reports was the fact that companies with big defense orders were often backward profitwise. The railroad-equipment industry is stuffed with tank, gun, heavy war castings orders; yet profits rose only 5%. General Electric (which claims to make more separate defense items than any other U.S. company), lifted sales 35% to $129,861,000 while profits dropped to $11,378,000 from...
...Front Government met its first major electoral test and came out a winner. Of more interest to the U. S. was the fact that the policy of cooperation with the U. S. was also put to a test and also came out a winner. This was something of a paradox because most elements of the Popular Front favor nationalism and neutrality against a pro-U. S. alignment in World...
Sometimes Rauschning's voice sounds like that of a prophet, sometimes like that of a clever Junker. He has little use for forces which most people are used to calling progressive. In a brilliant chapter, The Unseen Revolution, he lights up a paradox: "The true forces of reaction are not to be found . . . in the cliques of a privileged class. . . ." Far more reactionary are the doctrinaires who, in the name of economic security for the masses, have promoted "the idea of rational planning, which has come from the world of technology, where it belongs, to intrude on political...