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...government imposes upon it a scarcity policy of fewer goods at higher prices . . . the whole machine stalls. . . . The New Deal leadership began with the assumption that, as far as the private enterprises of its people are concerned, the once expanding dynamic enterprise of America is maturing towards a static economy...
...assume that a slow growing population heads the national economy towards stagnation has no justification in fact. It is significant that the most impressive housing developments of recent years have taken place in nations with slow growing or almost static population-notably Great Britain and Holland. This is significant for us because housing can mean to American economic life, in the next twenty-five years, what the automobile industry meant to the last twenty-five years. And better housing is but one of a long array of unsatisfied wants that we can take steps to meet if we can only...
...genius of the Mayan and Aztec artists cannot be refuted when one brings to mind the finely wrought gold articles, the sensitively constructed miniature animals, and the suitability of the material used for the object created. This early art is sturdy, grotesque, and static. Yet it contains a certain animating power which is so subtly interwoven with the actual material that its effect is tenacious and clinging rather than sudden. There is in it a silent sort of tension which is capable of producing a response within the mind of the spectator, a response which is only communicable by means...
...answer to a question on the present state of the war. Mr. Lewis said: "I regretted the resignation of Mr. Hore Belisha, because 1 felt that his resignation signified the abandonment of the "static war," so called, which among other people regarded as the bestrategy...
...last year's championship squad against the same team, and Coach Jack Carr was far from satisfied with his team's showing. In an attempt to bolster up its ailing offense, he made a number of personnel changes in the course of the game so that there was no static lineup, especially in the forward line...