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Last week's Republican landslide, said he, should give business "a favorable Government climate to conduct its stewardship." But there was danger in it, too-the danger that "complacency may lead us in business to slide back, and to revert to past attitudes of indifference and unconcern for the people." Warned Chuck Luckman: "That attitude was repudiated once before. ... It can be repudiated again...
...more substantial installations have been pulled down and carried away to Panama. The broad macadamized fighter strip is now abandoned, and only our three visiting B-17s are visible beside the longer main strip. Soon there may be only the caretakers left. Dull, drab Seymour Island may shortly revert to the goats, and the archipelago itself to the naturalists...
Labor Boss Humphrey Mitchell takes pride in the past but worries about the future. His labor law is strictly a wartime measure; control of labor will soon revert to the nine provinces. Then it will be up to the provincial governments to adopt labor codes as effective as the wartime law-else the Dominion will return to the prewar system of diverse, impotent labor legislation...
...Commander said he expected that the College would revert to the old program quickly after the demobilization. "The wartime set-up was created primarily to conform to the draft regulations by actually enlisting the men in the navy. We couldn't maintain our civilian training policy in the face of Selective Service...
...first time in three years, fight talk of the war will revert to anxious shouts of encouragement as Harvard and Yale formally resume their 64-year-old gridiron series...