Word: sided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nationalist transport officials, who now served the Reds, to Hong Kong, where the airlines had their head offices. The emissaries managed to persuade most of the airlines' Chinese personnel, who were tired of continued retreat and fearful of losing their jobs, to come over to the winning side. The Reds' envoys had more trouble with American pilots, presumably won over a few with assurances of continued high pay (up to U.S. $1,000 a month for 74 hours' flying,, plus $10 an hour for overtime), soothed everyone by saying that no politics need be involved...
...battle of Facts v. Ideas, Educator Hutchins had taken the side of ideas. This did not mean that he rejected facts. This week he marked his 20th anniversary at Chicago, the university had reached a height in science (i.e., the pursuit of facts) such as it had never achieved before. But Hutchins thoroughly intended that students at Chicago would be equipped to make a sound search for the truth about the facts...
...that John D. Rockefeller had founded in 1891 with a $600,000 gift (and which John D. had originally thought of as just a good Baptist college) became a first-rank university almost at birth. As its grey, Gothic-style buildings sprang up on Chicago's dreary South Side, notable minds had nocked to it: Philosopher John Dewey, Economist Thorstein Veblen, Archeologist James Henry Breasted. It was a place of exciting research, fired by the spirit of scientific inquiry and by the yeasty pragmatism of John Dewey. "The result is wonderful," exclaimed William James in 1903. "A real school...
True, high altitude bombers sent against warships "have their limitations. They can seldom see a target on the ground clearly, except by radar." And with "ordinary bombs which fly many miles horizontally as they drop they cannot hit the side of a barn-they cannot even hit a small city with any assurance . . . [But] the guided bomb alters this whole situation ... A great ship alone on the sea is a clear target to radar and a clear target for a guided bomb." Therefore, unless some effective seagoing defense against airborne attack comes along, "the days of the large fighting ships...
...trustbusters' side, the National Federation of Independent Business, which says it represents 136,000 small businessmen, has opened a newspaper campaign of its own. Its headline cried: "'A & P ADVERTISEMENT FALSE'-STATES U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE." But the federation was having a hard time making its rebuttal in Washington newspapers, where it thought it would have the most effect. The Post, Star and Times-Herald, which usually carry A & P ads, refused the federation's ad. Only the Daily News, which carries no regular A & P advertising, would...