Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After this week there will be no doubting the fact that a big segment of U. S. Business has more courage than Congress in facing the economic problems of defense. Last summer Congress broadened the income tax base, imposed a 10% income tax surcharge (to raise about $123,000,000 this year) and a corporate excess-profits tax (to raise about $106,000,000). With a Federal deficit estimated at $6,289,000,000 this year and $9,310,000,000 next year, these were timid gestures...
Knudsen represented the fact that a large segment of Business itself cooperated with the 1940 Revolution. To the other, perhaps larger, segment, he was the Revolution's most convincing legate. He spoke to them as one production man to another. He also spoke to them as Government to Business...
...Dapper, slick Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, cordially disliked by the New Deal. When Chip's prosperous Atlanta contracting firm, Robert & Co., grabbed off one juicy segment after another of the defense pie, enemies effected his ousting from the secretaryship of the National Democratic Party...
...struggle for a scientific approach to an essentially unscientific objct, the attempt to project reality into a vacuum by relegating the "other factors" out of the rump of reality, the economist wilfully shapes a fragment into an imaginary whole, his theory. By its very origin, economic theory is a segment...
What Chile did accomplish was to complicate further the overlapping claims already crowding each other around the frosty pie. Chile's segment includes part of the U. S.-explored lands on the west, overflows the Argentine-British claims on the east. Since 1908 this has been the most contested portion of the Antarctic...