Word: post-war
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...were describing last night by Hans Kohn, visiting professor in Government, in a talk to a group of 40 College and Radcliffe students. His talk, "The Lessons to Be Learned from Versailles," opened a series to be conducted by the "America's Role in World Affairs" division of the Post-War Council...
From the U.S. last week came one hopeful sign that religious leaders are eager to follow the British trend. The Jesuit weekly America, which often sets the pace for Roman Catholic action, devoted its lead editorial to cooperation with non-Catholics on post-war planning, praised British Catholics for working with "informed and convinced Christians [i.e., Protestants]." It also declared that U.S. Catholics "can afford to lose no time in getting busily to work" in similar fashion-once "norms and principles" for it have been "laid down by those whose office it is to authorize the participation of Catholics...
...preflight training, is now a part of many curricula. Its purpose is to condition school children to take to the air almost as soon as they leave the classroom. Less purposefully, but just as certainly, preflight training will mark an immensurably great divide between the airborne generation of the post-war world and their earth-bound elders...
...aeronautical third dimension to mathematics, physics, biology, history, geography, economics, politics, even literature. History lessons now plug a new crop of aero-heroes (from Leonardo da Vinci to the Wright Brothers). Biology lessons describe what happens to a pilot when he blacks out. Social science lessons picture a post-war world of "aerial freight trains," and decentralized living. Anthologies of the rich, adventurous literature of flying enliven English lessons...
...present form-are about to see their means of production go to the junk pile. More important to the U.S. as a whole, it would mean that, when peace comes, there will be no machinery left that is designed to produce for the inevitable tidal wave of post-war civilian demand. $40 for $4,000. An index of what such wholesale destruction would mean came from Detroit, where the auto industry estimated that scrapping their 1942 model equipment (to which Nelson specifically referred when he talked about machinery packed away in grease) would mean a wait of nine to thirteen...