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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partisanship on behalf of their own services. There are military men of sound and sober judgment in Washington today who are willing to place national interest ahead of interservice politics. To the extent that the Indians in the Pentagon will let them, they are slowly succeeding. The men I refer to are the chairman and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Holts pay a fee of $343, which includes adoption, visa and transportation costs plus $15 for a "home study." The Holts hire a private investigation agency to conduct the home study to be sure the applicants can take care of the youngsters, and that they are churchgoing Protestants (they refer Roman Catholic and Jewish requests to other agencies). Biggest difficulty: most Negro families want girls, but there are not enough Negro-Korean baby girls to go around...
...which has since been joined by 13 other companies, including Bell Telephone Laboratories, Metropolitan Life Insurance, the New York Times. Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, Allis-Chalmers and Boeing Airplane all have excellent and extensive programs of their own for rehabilitating alcoholics. Scores of other companies have informal programs or refer their workers to outside clinics, psychiatric help or such organizations as Alcoholics Anonymous, Chicago's Portal House, Boston's Committee on Alcoholism, and Cleveland's Center on Alcoholism...
...Farnsworth's complicated statement must then mean that the young would be better off if they had faith in their elders, if they could find rules for today in the experience of yesterday. I refer the reader to the lives of the Hebrew prophets for further variations on the same theme...
Despite the recent drops, the U.S. economy still has a long way to go before it approaches the slump of 1953-54-which economists now refer to as the "goldplated" recession. Steel must drop another 21% of rated capacity, retail sales 10%, carloadings another 6%, industrial production another 12 points, and unemployment would have to double to 5,000,000 (most economists foresee 4,000,000 by spring). The only part of the U.S. economy that has dropped far enough to be in a serious recession is the stock market. It plummeted...