Word: readjusters
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...whole was less concerned with the immediate future of civil liberties than with the immediate future of the U. S. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The whole shape of the world . . . has been destroyed before our eyes, and it has proved all but impossible to readjust our whole system of ideas and attitudes to the new reality which now confronts us . . . . There is an American case, worth arguing for, worth fighting for and worth dying for." Just dawning on the Western Hemisphere was the suspicion that Nazi Germany, like Communist Russia, was engaged in a world revolution...
...band (44,000-50,000 kilocycles), FCC opened the heavens to FM broadcasting. Including the band it .had previously been allocated experimentally, it now has 42,000-50,000 kilocycles, will presently be able to spot stations all over the land. Meanwhile, television must plainly label television experimental, must readjust its transmitters in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to one of its other bands. Bubbling with confusion, excitement, hysteria, the radio industry, feeling the hot breath of revolution on its neck, last week gazed fitfully into the future. Some of its visions were sad, some glad. Among them...
There are, of course, activities and activities. Habitual residence at the Ritz bar may be one of the latter. Others are valuable, but hardly educational in the Conant-Landis-Hutchins sense: Phillips Brooks House might be mentioned. Many others, however, actually do help to readjust the educational balance which is now so heavily on the side of subject matter, so far from the ideal of method...
...lower daily wages for the building trades, for reorganization of untenable capital structures like the railroads, when it came to the point it has shied away from meeting deflation by the orthodox means of scaling down monopolistic high prices, disproportionate wages and interest charges. "Because it is unpopular to readjust by liquidation and politically inconvenient to revise its policies," summed up Pundit Walter Lippmann last week, "the Administration has come back as a matter of course to inflation by spending...
...scrap iron but finished steel (more quickly convertible into war materials) and to pay for it they were already beginning to ship abroad quantities of Japan's small store of gold. Internally the Government launched 200,000,000 yen of deficit bonds, announced it would be necessary "to readjust [private] investment capital," presumably a euphemism for a capital levy. The Knife of War was about to slit China's throat but it was also about to slit Japan's purse...