Word: utilitarianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hochi published a list of five demands on Russia to reinforce the pact, most important of which was the demand that Russia stop helping China's Chiang Kaishek. Russia, said Hochi, was merely continuing to adhere to "the utilitarian policy of waiting for Japan, Germany and Italy to become exhausted in order to fish in troubled waters...
Last week Utilitarian Foshay was starting on his fourth year as paid secretary of the Salida Chamber of Commerce. The annual membership drive was under way and he was working like a beaver. Back of him were three years of success. Salida was on its way to becoming a ghost town in the early '30s. The Denver & Rio Grande Western took away its shops and offices, two mines closed down, 3,000 citizens moved away. First thing W. B. did was advertise. On the highways he set up strings of hearts bearing the admonition "Follow the Hearts to Salida...
Admitting that she had never done any work on men's clothes whatsoever, she went on to explain what she would do if she could design their clothes for them. "You're all so utilitarian," she complained, looking disgustedly at the clothes of the men in the room. "For instance, you pick your materials for the reason that they won't show dirt! What you should do is to try to be less drab...
...Once a year Factory-Builder Kahn makes a concession to his artistic (10%) nature. He takes on a residence, and the firm, geared to turn out industrial designs on a mass-production basis, loses money on the job. Usually in Georgian or Tudor tradition, it ill compares with the utilitarian beauty of its factory brothers. But it is "Albert's baby," and nobody minds...
...Olds: "The North American Co. and its operating companies expect to meet with their own resources all of the obligations arising out of any national defense problems. . . . This will require as never before the use of all resources of capital and man power. . . . We will use them fully." Utilitarian Shea laid on the line a $29,000,000 addition to a $61,000,000 construction program announced in January. The new items: 60,000 kilowatts for Cleveland, 50,000 for Washington...