Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airmen knew they were in for protests from railroaders and shipping men. They could not even estimate the costs of their plan. But the airmen had one big argument: unless something is done now to check the downswing in U.S. air power, the eventual cost might never be calculable in dollars...
From now until 1948, a big political argument would undoubtedly be: Who is responsible for high prices? But the main political point needed no spotlighting: the U.S. people were getting good & sore at waiting for prices to come down and seeing them go up instead...
...Rebuttal. Industry's argument against the expansionists is based on the economics of production. Because of the scrap shortage, the industry cannot even maintain full use of its present capacity. But the current 85 million-ton production rate, industry points out, is 20 million tons greater than the 1929 "peak prosperity" year. The present steel shortage is largely due to demands that accumulated during the war and that, once satisfied, will slack off. Moreover, the shortage would be intensified by removing from present supply the five million tons of steel it would take to build plants to produce...
...cancer detection clinics. Wrote the University of Minnesota's Owen H. Wangensteen: stomach cancer is so insidious and gives so little warning that every man over 50 and every woman over 40 should report to a clinic regularly for an X-ray checkup. To point up his argument, Dr. Wangensteen examined the case histories of five world-famed authorities (including Will Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, and R. D. Carman, who developed an improved method for X-ray diagnosis of cancer). Each of the five discovered his own unsuspected cancer too late...
Editors will feel an urge to jump on Hocking, especially for his parallels, for truth in politics and morals is no matter of applying a multiplication table. But critics can profit by reading his argument to the end, at least for his insistence on the principle that freedom of the press presupposes a specific acknowledgement of moral responsibility by the press. His argument is a rocky path, but along the way he has strewn some bright pebbles of comment and criticism...