Word: swift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swift, in Gulliver's Travels, wrote of the unpleasantly human Yahoos: "It is observed that the red-haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom they much exceed in strength and activity...
Workers Come Cheap. Parts of Akutagawa's book might have come from Dean Swift. Accompanied by Gael, "a capitalist of capitalists," No. 23 visited some kappa factories. His guide told him that each month the kappa invent seven or eight hundred new machines which throw 40 or 50,000 kappa out of work. When No. 23 wondered about the absence of labor trouble, his kappa friends explained nonchalantly: "They are all eaten up. We kill all those workers and eat their flesh. This month 64,769 workers have been dismissed and the price of meat has dropped...
...problem of machines and employment has long been a favorite topic of satirists. In A Modest Proposal Swift similarly suggested that poor Irish mothers be permitted to sell their year-old offspring for 10 shillings. The babies could then be slaughtered, sold as edible meat. This would limit excessive population, furnish a new source of food supply. Clarence Day's Animals in a Machine Age advocated training squirrels to operate textile bobbins, raccoons to run railways. While they worked it would be in the employer's best interest to keep them healthy and fat; when business slackened...
...Such swift action was something new in U.N. Newest and strangest was the line-up on the vote. The U.S. and Russia voted "yes" together. Britain, France and Belgium abstained...
Meanwhile, action in the Indies on the U.N. demand was as swift as at Lake Success. Although Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook denied that U.N. had any right to intervene, he promised to halt Dutch troops...