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...served there on various wartime boards, filled the post of Administrator of Lend-Lease, ably helped to sell Roosevelt's policies to skeptical Congressmen, succeeded Sumner Welles as Under Secretary of State, spread good will, slapped backs and first-named embarrassed British and Russian diplomats. When the aged Cordell Hull had to quit, silver-haired Ed Stettinius, at 44, became the second youngest Secretary of State in the nation's history...
Professor Sumner H. Slichter of Harvard, a man who approaches his subject with scholarly caution, raised his sights from the present, and tried to see what the U.S. would be like 30 years from now. His report was bottomed on sober statistics and hedged by careful qualifications -but it all added up to a bright vision. The good things in store for the U.S. in 1980, Professor Slichter wrote in the November Atlantic Monthly, will make the prosperity of the 1940s seem pale and austere...
...Solid Sumner Slichter went into no dreams of his own of an atom-built, atom-powered U.S. wonderland; he assumed only a continuance of the American talent for invention, and the American genius for production. He left the possibility of war out of consideration, as something that could not be charted. Then, projecting forward from known past performance, he predicted...
...graduates aim for the professions as in the past (about 65%), there would have to be, to accommodate them, two or three times as many openings as exist in these prize fields now. Professor Harris, who believes as devoutly in an expanding U.S. economy as his associate, Economist Sumner Slichter (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), wonders whether it can expand that much that soon...
...Sumner, who says his parents have approved of the plan, is looking for a two-man crew to make the trip and share expenses. He plans to have the boat built in Japan and sail the southern route, stopping at Guam, Wake, Midway, and the Hawaiian Islands...