Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Desperate Conditions. Some of you have traveled in the Orient and you remember your first glimpse of it. The poverty, the overcrowding, the dirt, the squalor, the disease were all right out there in full view; and your first reaction was: "Why, these people are living almost like animals. Their condition is hopeless." It was just about all you could take under ordinary circumstances, wasn't it? How much worse after almost eight years of war and invasion...
...takes 10%. If he takes 20%, he is dishonest; but, if he does not take 10%, he is not considered honest, he is just dumb. The Chinese say that dishonesty consists in leaving somebody with the wrong impression. So it is not graft from the Chinese point of view, because everybody knows perfectly well it is being done. It is "old custom," has always been done, and everybody understands...
...American adviser explained how the three views might be applied to such a crisis as the French dispute with Lebanon and Syria (see The Nations). Under the Chinese interpretation, if the Syrians came to the Council they would be heard and the Council could send a commission to Damascus to investigate what happened there,, even though France objected. If Syria then asked the Council to act on the result of its investigation and France objected, the Council would not be able to act. In the Anglo-American view, the Council would hear the Syrians but could not investigate over...
Forgetting the ugly fact of coupons, hats and clothes (with the exception of utility wear) were half again as expensive as pre-Dunkirk. Hats were coupon-free, but in view of the sky-high prices, they might just as well have cost the coupon value of a coat. Last week smart London-designed hats cost from $30, and they were definitely not Paris models. For those, London shoppers willingly paid...
Labor, sticking to the view that the failure of markets to keep industry busy is largely due to "oversaving" by business and by individuals of the higher income groups, would scale its tax reductions so that the low income groups would be the chief beneficiaries. It proposes individual tax exemptions that would free a family of four from all taxes on incomes up to $2,750. But it also proposes to raise $12 billion (about ten times prewar) from the individual income tax-which would mean that tax rates in upper brackets could be reduced very little. It proposes...