Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British statesman Lord Balfour met a young Russian-Jewish chemist. For more than an hour, he listened while the young man in passionate broken English tried to explain what Zionism was all about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will...
That sort of thing was not what O'Brian was after. He does not think that his schools should destroy the island way of life. "Truk doesn't need democracy," says he. "It needs to feed itself, and it needs English to keep from getting fleeced if U.S. protection should end." O'Brian hopes Truk won't change too much. "It's wonderful. If I can, I'm going back there to live...
Harder Selling. Few businessmen were worried. They did not think that the economy would bog down because of a few soft spots as long as the basic industries were humming. Example: steel mills, operating at capacity for the second week in a row, turned out 1,845,000 tons...
...McDonnell stock. The paradoxical reason: the once risky McDonnell bet now looked too safe & sound. As head of Rockefeller Brothers, Inc., a unique research and investment house, Laurance and his brothers are only interested in enterprises that offer genuine risk. When the companies are well established, the brothers think most of their money should be taken out for other speculative ventures...
...Interviewer: What does your husband think of this...