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...these emotion-packed words Macmillan opened Britain's most fateful economic debate since World War II. What he was calling for was a program, revolutionary but gradual, that could alter the course of British economic history. As an island economy dependent on imported food and raw materials, Britain must export to live. Once she did so under the flapping banners of free trade. For the last quarter-century, however, British manufacturers have cowered behind high tariff walls and foreign competitors have imposed retaliatory tariffs that have prevented British goods from finding mass markets abroad. The result: Britain, drained...
First of all, he pointed out that the Dickeys had gleefully left their mark for twenty years, and that even the president of Harvard could not alter the cake of custom...
...surgery is good or evil, or neither, according to the purpose for which it is performed. The surgeon himself is usually justified. His unobjectionable purpose is to earn a living and remedy ugliness. And the patient-unless his motive is actually evil, like that of a criminal trying to alter his features to escape the law-is usually moved by motives that are indifferent or actually good. It is not wicked to want to improve one's looks, suggested Rotondi. "It does not seem to me exaggerated to say that sometimes plastic surgery has brought back peace to estranged...
...which he served as clerk and airplane painter in the Kaiser's army, Klee for ten years was a member of the experimental Bauhaus movement in company with Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers and Kandinsky. But the Bauhaus' dedication to the discipline of the machine did not alter Klee. In a Bauhaus prospectus he wrote defiantly: "Construction is not totality . . . intuition still remains an important element...
...Treasury and the Federal Reserve. The Fed had been stripped of most money-regulating powers in 1941, when the U.S. entered World War II. Anxious to finance the war at low interest, the Government froze the discount rate at i%, suspended the FRB's right to alter reserve requirements, and harnessed it to an agreement to support, at par, Treasury securities, which supplied 60% of the cost of fighting the war. By 1950 the Fed, which had been created as an independent agency to guard the nation's money, was clamoring to be unshackled from the Treasury, whose...