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...simplest form the basic unsoundness of his proposal is evident from a single example: One man may have founded a business by much effort, skill and good management with a $5,000 investment. Another man, less able and less hardworking, may have got a similar business going only after sinking $10,000 into it. Both may now make equal profits; but under a proposal like Henry Morgenthau's, the abler, harder-working man would be allowed to keep only half as much profit as his less competent competitor...
...being overbought. Steel orders (though still ahead of output) are running 35% to 40% below August, will probably slip further. Furniture manufacturers last month accepted 29% less business than in July, largely because they could not have filled the orders anyway. But such declines are not typical. Most basic industries have record backlogs, could operate for months without booking a single new order...
...dental journals have argued that the new program will slight basic dental training for medicine, to which the school replies that the full equivalent of the old Dental School is included. It is less able, however, to answer the charge that much of the medical training is irrelevant. A dentist has little use for psychiatry and less for obstetrics. Nevertheless, the near-equivalent of medical school, containing all but the electives of the fourth year, is fed to the potential super-dentists whether it applies or not. Some courses, such as obstetrics, have been slightly shortened, but the net result...
Like Herbert Hoover, Pundit Lippmann apparently assumed that the war against Hitler is already on the way to being won. Like many another American and Briton, he failed to recognize that the summer of 1941 has shown not the strength but a basic weakness of the alliance against Hitler: for a whole summer while the Nazis were busy fighting Russia, Britain did not have the strength to launch a single attack of importance on Germany...
...over 1936. Students returning this fall to several engineering colleges-Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State, others-found a new department had been added to teach them powder tricks which many an oldtime engineer wished he knew. So fast has powder metallurgy expanded in industry that shop practice has sometimes outstripped basic theory. Leading U.S. academic metal powder laboratory is directed by Gregory Jamieson Comstock at Stevens Institute of Technology...