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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been hanging in the city's council chambers. But it had lately been joined by Sir Edwin Landseer's sidesaddle version, and local school authorities were raising holy Ned. Children just should not be exposed to such a thing, they protested. Their objection: the sidesaddle was unknown in Godiva's day, 900 years ago; the children were being given an entirely erroneous impression of history...
...unknown was the anti-inflation section. But Harry Truman was going to wade right into two of the hottest issues of the campaign: housing and high prices. His message asked for passage of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill and most of the ten-point anti-inflation program he had put before Congress last fall, including standby authority to ration and control the prices of scarce commodities "which vitally affect . . . health and welfare...
...some 75% of the rock bits used in drillings all over the world. The present Hughes enterprises include Hughes Aircraft at Culver City, Calif.; Hughes Productions (movies); a controlling interest in Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., and a brewery, the largest in Texas. There is an exceedingly large but unknown amount of cash out of which Howard Hughes paid for his RKO stock. The net income of Hughes Tool, the parent company, is estimated at $8-10,000,000 a year, but since Howard Hughes owns 100% of Hughes Tool he does not have to publish balance sheets...
...student: "The idea merits attention. Voyes-vous, the antagonism between things and man is nothing new. Even the great Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason seems prepared to grant some mysterious powers to things. In this book Kant admitted that the essential nature of objects remains completely unknown.* The trouble for us Existentialists is: how are we going to argue with inanimate objects? Let collar-buttons and slices of toast write a treatise of their own philosophy and then we will deal with their arguments...
...mysterious, short-lived particle, closely connected with the unknown force that holds all matter together...