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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist fatherland, Bolshevik bosses were also having trouble with men who coddled the worker. "Some managers," Moscow's Pravda whined, "are prone to show off their lavishness and kindness at the expense of the state, under the guise of awards and presents. They encourage all kinds of . . . soirées and banquets on any and every occasion-or even without any reason whatsoever...
Professor Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological Seminary played with the topic: "New Social forces in the World." When drawn out in the following discussion period, he stated that the war now shaping up has aspects of a class war, and that the U. S. is prone to talk of liberty, but not "justice." Nothing, he declared, would be as indecent as a deliberate war on any nation that might attack...
...couldn't pull off a deal like that in any other country. Americans are uniquely prone to isolate emotion from life, and so cut off it inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of Mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the wife ("the little woman") is well enough known and horrible. And so far she is Day-less. As for mothers, their main trouble is usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children...
...Flight Test Division, most of them based at Wright Field, have the highest prestige of any group in the peacetime Air Force. Slim, unshakably calm Colonel Albert Boyd, 42, chief of the division, picks his men with minute care. Their records must show that they are not "accident prone." Formal engineering training is valuable, but character is essential. The prospective test pilot must be alert, intelligent, stable and not excitable. He must be enthusiastic about the work. There isn't enough money, explains Colonel Boyd undramatically, to pay for what a test pilot will be asked...
...freshman rifle team was outshot yesterday afternoon, 1,327 to 1,242, in a New England Collegiate Rifle League match with New Hampshire University at Durham, N.H. The two teams kept fairly even in the prone and kneeling shoots but New Hampshire swept the off-hand...