Word: procession
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardly noticeable on U.S. tables. The meat shortage was virtually a famine, and it would not soon get better. Shipments of livestock to slaughtering centers had dried up; many slaughterers closed up shop indefinitely, along with thousands of butchers. In a week in which it would normally purchase and process 9,000 cattle and 26,000 hogs, Armour & Co.'s main plant in Chicago took in only 68 cattle, 139 hogs...
Ever So Public. Communists or no Communists, this could not have occurred if the sum total of war experience, topping a long process of social, economic and ordinary human evolution, had not worked fundamental changes in Britain's mass mentality. Forget Communists versus Socialists. Think of some thousands of little Britons who were born to (and never expected anything better than) life in one or two slummy rooms, suddenly forgetting all their ingrained attitudes toward their "place," property and their "betters," and taking what in ordinary course they would never have...
James Bryant Conant's outstanding characteristic as an educator is that he is interested in education-which is a point of view not as typical of college presidents as it might be. He looks on education as "a social process." as something very much a part of the community. In Emersonian fashion, he inveighs against "the recluse who has almost ceased to be a man, and whose labors in the library or the laboratory differ from stamp collecting only by the courtesy of a name." Says he: "Personally, I like the word 'relevance.' ... To my mind...
...risk. The company was on the verge of bankruptcy; it had no big clients and "a 15-year record of mistakes." But it also had some assets: 1) a couple of able technicians, Alan Gundelfinger and William Crespinel, who had founded the company in 1932; and 2) a process which could produce "rushes" (unedited film) in color film 24 hours after it was taken and at a cost of only 20 to 25% more than black & white film. Moreover, the movies could be taken with ordinary film cameras and with black & white film plus special filters. Technicolor needed about four...
James refused to draw any large conclusions about what this would mean for the U.S. and the world in the future. Wrote he: "When an ancient treasure of precious vessels, overscored with glowing gems and wrought, artistically, into wondrous shapes, has, by a prodigious process, been converted, through a vast community, into the small change, the simple circulating medium of dollars and 'nickels,' we can only say that the consequent permeation will be of values of anew order. Of what order we must wait...