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...from the spontaneous actions and choices of ordinary people that progress . . .springs . . . that the creative achievements of the state have been vastly overrated, and that in the words of Calvin Coolidge, 'where the people are the government they do not get rid of their burdens by attempting to unload them on the government.' Men are learning by bitter experience the truth of these words. I used to cherish the hope that the study of history might save us from having to learn that...
...addition, Andreas indicated that the Russians might eventually take 150 million lbs. of each commodity. That is more than half the Agriculture Department's hoard of butter and almost a sixth of its larger store of cottonseed oil, both of which Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson would love to unload...
Hopper Helper. A new freight car for bulk shipments of dry powdered commodities (feed, chemicals), which formerly had to be transported in containers, was put into production by General American Transportation Corp. The car contains bins with slanted sides lined with a porous, silicon-treated fabric. To unload the car, air is blown at low pressure under the fabric, breaking up hard-packed cargo so that it flows like water through hatches under...
...wild, sleepless days, the men of the 24th Division fought a series of desperate delaying actions designed to slow the Red flood and borrow time for the Eighth Army to unload at Pusan and establish a firm line of defense. Each hour of delay, each blunting skirmish that forced the Communists to detour or deploy, was a small triumph, paid in full with American lives. Four times on the bloody road from Seoul the G.I.s halted the Reds briefly, upsetting their timetable and flattening their warhead...
...would at a round-table affair, with all kinds of chances to create diversions and confusions. Furthermore, the U.S. feared that it might be thrown on the defensive in such a round-table conference, with Britain, perhaps, pressing for more trade with Communist China, or the French trying to unload their commitments in Indo-China, or the Indians calling for U.N. recognition of Communist China and the neutralization-if not surrender-of Formosa. Besides, Syngman Rhee had warned Dulles that South Korea would not sit in the conference if India were there...