Word: myth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trade,' in the present postwar world, has no relation to real foreign trade. . . . The nation is shipping abroad materials of all kinds, but we are receiving promises to pay and very little else from debtors whose ability to pay is questionable. Calling this trade is to perpetuate a myth. Trade consists in swapping something you have for something you want. We must supply capital goods . . . technical assistance and know-how to other nations to help them help themselves, and to strengthen their economies." (Westinghouse is now doing this by selling plans and know-how to China...
...thinking smacks of Alice-in Wonderland in 1946. Western Europeans have shown little tendency to emigrate. Rather, the great mass of potential immigrants stem from Eastern Europe and seek no economic mecca but merely a simon simple escape from religious and political persecution. Objective tests have conclusively exposed the myth of racial superiority and inferiority. Thoroughly assimilated and educated, second generation Americans of Easttern and southern European stock have proved that previous environment, not race, accounted for the initially poor impressions made by their parents...
...year after V-J day some Japs in Brazil were still convinced that Japan was undefeated. They had been told so by swindling fellow countrymen with a reason. The swindlers were still selling Java and Philippine victory stocks to gullible compatriots. They were using terrorism to keep the myth and their market alive...
...whose name was Henryk Blasczyk, said that he had been held prisoner in the building, that he had seen the bodies of 15 Gentile children killed by the Jews, that he had escaped through a broken window. The myth of ritual murder by Jews is an ancient one in anti-Semitic Poland; last week, as many times before, it turned the Polish crowd into a pack of bloodthirsty maniacs...
...pinheaded, plump-breasted, dirty-white thing astride a horned and half-destroyed reddish-brown thing. Entitled The Rape of Europa, it was dated June 5, 1946. Asked one impious art-lover: "Between what hours did he paint it?" It seemed to have something to do with the Greek myth in which Zeus turned himself into a bull to carry off a pretty girl named Europa on his back. Picasso's price...