Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie was a walking, talking political paradox: he was trying to make a non-partisan campaign. Convinced that he will get the basic 16,500,000 regular Republican votes anyway, he struck again & again into Democratic strongholds, into areas that had never seen a Presidential nominee of any stripe, traveled over rusty railspurs that had never held a passenger train. Correspondents agreed that, as a campaigner, he was a terrific in-&-outer. Groups of a half-dozen he wholly charmed; with 300 he was excellent; with 10,000 he was fair; faced by more than 20,000 people...
...Arts and Sciences, the leaflet will probably list two groups of courses. The first group will provide practical military or scientific information which would be useful to a member of the armed services. The second group will deal with such subjects as the nature of fascism and the basic causes of the conflict...
...nation still dazed by war, heading toward famine, and sick to death of itself, Petain expounded totalitarian economic theory in the form of three basic principles: 1) organization of professions on a corporative basis within which elements of enterprise can thrash out their difficulties; 2) arbitration by the State of all disputes otherwise incapable of settlement; 3) State control of corporations to adjust national production in accordance with domestic markets and the possibilities of foreign trade...
...standards of required background work. However, if men who plan to compete for the technical board have not had any previous technical training, they may be expected to have courses in Physics or radio included in their schedule of future studies. In any case, a certain amount of basic technical radio instruction will be included in the competition along with an explanation of the hook up to be used in the Harvard system...
...Industrial Mobilization" has as its content material compiled by arrangement with the Army Industrial College. This course covers the industrial and procurement problems of preparing the United States for a wartime emergency. Industries basic to defense effort are surveyed. The organization, functions, and wartime powers of the government, its agencies and military establishments are discussed. Consideration is given to the problems of military and civilian procurement. This course also deals with labor problems and the facilities for communication and transportation, as well as the subjects of war trade and economic warfare...