Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Characteristically enough, the Lion is rather slow in growing its wings: but once fully equipped it is no mean animal to reckon with. First we are paraded in March-of-Time fashion through the British way of living: housing projects and sports and merry-making (as everybody knows, the Nazis have suppressed all three). In between we catch occasional glimpses of what the Nazis do: goose-stepping and listening to the guttural shrieks of Der Fuchrer. These contrasts are worked out with the imperturbable British humor which throughout saves "The Lion Has Wings" from becoming annoying...
...that the U. S. had best join up with the Allies was based on two arguments: 1) if the Allies won, the U. S. could insist on a settlement generous to Germany; 2) if the Allies crumbled despite the U. S. joining up, then Germany would still have to reckon with the U. S. when talk came of peace terms, would therefore make a more generous settlement - and would be less free to turn on the U. S. after her European victory. Months before the Armistice, Secretary Lansing prophesied that unless all dictatorial governments were swept out of existence "some...
...Fairless produced an expert, University of Chicago Statistics Professor Theodore Ott Yntema. Substance of sharp-eyed, youthful Expert Yntema's very technical mathematical-metaphysical testimony: the corporation is burdened with large inflexible costs; steel sales do not rise in proportion as the price falls; therefore, price cuts reckon without inflexible costs and demand, lead to bankruptcy...