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Out of 213 of the first companies reporting, 127 did better in 1946 than in 1945; 86 did worse. But there were plenty of surprises. Whether they were pleasant or unpleasant depended on whether earnings had 1) plummeted under strikes or 2) soared because of the end of the excess...
When you get "fired" as a civilian, or "quit," you are free to go your way, but not so in the Army. Instead, you get transferred to some disagreeable job, such as mess officer, or permanent kitchen police (if enlisted man). It's a courageous man who "quits" his...
Since the Democratic and Republican parties alike contain within their ranks arch-conservatives and arch-liberals, since a Congressman's re-election depends not upon his unswerving support of a party program but upon the satisfaction rendered to his constituents and to pressure groups, and since there is no practicable...
The early chapters from the foundation for such a conclusion by showing the problem itself in its scientific and military aspects. The cornerstone is laid by Philip Morrison (official War Department investigator of the results of the Hiroshima bomb) whose picture of the effects of a single bomb on New...
The Idea of Christ in the Gospels confronts the reader with no such unpleasant choice of illusion or disillusion. Now Santayana accepts the illusion. If religion is a myth, he says, no disparagement is thereby implied, since science, philosophy, history and other "images" of the universal flux are also myths...