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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blasted arch-conservative Jesse Jones clean out of the Government. This the President was determined to do, no matter what the cost. He was convinced that Jesse Jones had had a hand in the abortive anti-Roosevelt Putsch in Texas, and he was willing to risk a full-scale battle with the Senate-even though the top objective of Term IV is to keep the Senate in friendly mood until the peace treaty arrives...
...American people are fighting this war with high hope it will eventuate in an enduring peace. We all look for measures of international cooperation which will reduce the necessity for large-scale postwar military establishments. If Congress should now prescribe a year of compulsory military training, the action together with the necessary accompanying measures for mobilizing industry and science would be interpreted as meaning that we must continue, to live for an indefinite period in an armed camp...
...Russians are using their new Joseph Stalin supertank on an ever-increasing scale. This most powerfully gunned and armored vehicle in the world is more than a match for our best tank, the Royal Tiger...
...geological conception of the world." In the vast perspective of the billions of years of geologic time, man has seemed to orthodox geologists a puny and perhaps temporary phenomenon. Geologically, the earth has not changed much in those billions of years. But Vernadsky, impressed by man's large-scale conversion of natural minerals to metals in World War I, advanced the "biogeochemical" theory that modern man's brain, rivaling in power the geological forces of wind and water, is radically transforming nature...
...affairs, Vernadsky, who had a weakness for creating new tongue twisters, coined the term "noösphere," from the Greek nods (mind) and sphere. Said he: "The noösphere is a new geological phenomenon on our planet. In it for the first time man becomes a large-scale geological force.... Wider and wider creative possibilities open before him. It may be that the generation of our grandchildren will approach their blossoming. . . . Fairy-tale dreams appear possible in the future; man is striving to emerge beyond the boundaries of his planet into cosmic space. And he probably will...