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...June 12, I asked Albert Einstein of the Department for Advanced Study, and the Department of Mathematics, of Princeton University, to assist me with ascertaining the difficulty of solving, a certain mathematical problem--submitted herewith--and in partial remuneration for this favor, offered to pay to the person first to submit the correct solution within 30 days, the sum of $25.00; and a partial solution within the amount of 25,000 of the correct solution, $10.00; within the amount of 50,000, $5.00; and within the amount...
...failure of the Department for Advanced Study, the Department of Mathematics, and Albert Einstein either to solve or partly solve the problem presumably has established the fact that its solution and partial solutions are difficult; but not in what determinably exact degree difficult, and which, and with reasonable certainty, is my objective. For this objective can be reached only with a solution of the problem and a measurement of all measurable factors involved in the work of its solving. Therefore, as a further supplementation of the reward in exercise of the spirit of sportsmanship which efforts of solving the problem...
...request will ask something over $5,500,000,000 more. Like the first, it will be a partial appropriation, for the President does not want to frighten Congress by demanding the whole added $12,000,000,000 he now thinks he may need. No provision will be asked for aid to Russia. If Soviet cash and credit in the U.S. run short, the Administration may offer Russia a loan to finance purchases of war equipment...
...hesitated with reasons. One reason was the value of a diplomatic listening post in France. Another was the chance that the Germans might overplay their hand, arouse Vichy to partial resistance. The best reason was the small bet the U.S. has placed on General Maxime Weygand to resist any Axis attack on Vichyfrench Africa. General Weygand hates the guts of General de Gaulle...
...White House meant to put the whole thing off till next fall. Strategy: by then the cost of living would have gone so high that an angry consumer lobby might be organized to override the Friends of Inflation. But by then also, inflation will be at least a partial fact...