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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind all the bustle lay a set of attitudes which most historians are prone to ignore. In this volume, however, the influence of such forces as Herbert, Spencer's evolutionary liberalism and Frederick Taylor's "time-and-motion-studies" are more accurately weighed than ever before. "The Age of Enterprise" is a tale both of what men did and of how they thought...
...would probably be dusty and the lights might go out, but the survivors had better stay below. Over the amplifiers came the same clipped voice (it was a lieutenant standing on the bridge). "You chaps in the mess hall," came his cheerful voice, "in case of a hit lie prone on the deck. . . . Here they come, sir-5-17- 22-30-44 torpedo bombers coming...
...only recourses left to eager allies. China has been promised that she will be free and unified after the war. She has been guaranteed the abandonment of that greedy imperialistic policy by which the nations of the world have denied China control over her own resources, leaving her prone to internal unrest and invasion. By this action, Allied statesmen hope to work miracles in Chungking. They hope to give Chinese morale a tremendous shot in the arm which will stimulate offensive action against the enemy. They feel that China must be convinced that this is a war of a liberation...
Commemorating Gandhi's month-old arrest, hundreds of his followers, choking under a tear-gas barrage, lay prone or squatted in Bombay streets. But although Gandhi's movement was spreading, the Raj persisted in pretending that it had suppressed the demonstrations and averted greater uproar. The danger, increasing week by week, was that the full fury of India's disorder would burst when dry war weather in late September and October* adds its welcome to Japanese invaders...
...south panel (see cut) gave a Marxist-eye-view of the history of Chile. It was dominated by a gigantic figure of the Araucanian Indian chief Galvarino, roaring and waving the stumps of his handless arms (mutilated by the Spaniards) over a group of prone Spanish soldiers, like a mad maestro leading an infernal symphony. Over his shoulders glared the faces of Revolutionists Francisco Bilbao (with beard) and Araucanian Chief Caupolican (with one blind eye). Behind them, clutching a Chilean flag, swayed the small figure of Chile's liberator, Bernardo O'Higgins. The two panels were connected...