Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...denounced by Harry Truman two years ago when the pair tied up the railways. "These two men," the President had rasped-"Mister Whitney and Mister Johnston." Whitney has since forgiven Mr. Truman, and has announced that he will back him for renomination. Johnston is a Republican. He is a plain, blunt man who started his career as a callboy, vaguely resembles John L. Lewis, is publicly crotchety and privately pleasant...
...make a lot of economists throw in the slide rule in disgust. To the austeritarian school (prevalent in Europe and some U.S. quarters), prosperity, like chivalry, is an archaic notion, something that apple sellers in the '30s expected just around the corner. And even a good many plain Americans have agreed that free enterprise, if not downright immoral, is at least impractical in Europe today. Yet Belgium, like a healthy old chain-smoker defying the anti-nicotine prophets, is both prosperous and free...
...says he, are meaningless under modern conditions. Only a nation's top leaders could possibly know enough of the facts to decide. But "the justice of the cause is not the sole criterion of justifiable war .'.. There is another test whose application is henceforth simple and plain: even a just war must not be waged by immoral means. Under modern conditions, however, war can be waged only by such aerial bombing as must involve the slaughter and maiming of innocent civilians ... To kill the innocent is not a lawful means to any end, however good. Therefore, under...
Died. William S. (Signius Wilhelm Poul) Knudsen, 69, plain-spoken mass production genius, who left the General Motors presidency in 1940 to direct the U.S. armament program; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Detroit. Danish-born "Big Bill" Knudsen arrived in the U.S. with $30 in 1899, went to work in a shipyard, got a job in 1911 with Henry Ford and became his right-hand man. After a policy row in 1921, he went over to G.M. and soon made Chevrolet the competitor that killed the Model...
...Britain, the overvalued pound made touring comparatively expensive. In London's first-flight Dorchester Hotel, for example, a single room with bath cost $11 a night. Britain's rationing system was also stricter than on the Continent, but the meals, plain though they might be, were reasonably priced (the government had pegged them at $1). In the provinces, food was better, and hotel prices (about $4 a night) lower. Britain's best lures: dollar tourists could buy clothes and get enough gasoline to drive 600 miles in two weeks, 1,000 in four...