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...glance at the basic statistics of the Bindery will give an indication of the phenomenal amount of work it accomplishes. Serving 75 out of the 77 libraries in the University, it rejuvenates about 3500 volumes of all types in a single month. At the present time it has an annual gross sales of $50,000. Furthermore, the 2000 running feet of books bound in one year would stretch from Sever Hall to Eliot House...
...What is the common basic factor which many people feel running through Bolshevism, Naziism, the New Deal...
...basic, national readiness for war, in the energy and quality and amount of its pre-war planning and production, the U.S. of last week was incomparably ahead of the U.S. of pre-war 1917. It was even ahead of the U.S. of midwar 1918. By the dollar measure alone the U.S. in that war spent a total of $22,000,000,000; last week, the U.S. had already spent or committed itself to spend...
Although the U.S. defense boom had not yet reached the point of retail-price inflation, Keynes's New Deal disciples were already giving his basic idea a startling twist. A few Administration corners buzzed with it. Provoked by 1 ) the problem of U.S. morale, and 2) the perplexing question of what will happen to the economy when defense spending ends, the New Dealers thought about killing both birds with one stone by giving U.S. youth a Keynesian lien on the Peace...
...eager to argue with those who believe that civil consumption can be cut down by allowing prices to rise as they naturally would. He points out that in copper, steel and other basic materials, price increases would not draw out really significant new capacity; he notes that in copper no price rise within reason would avert the necessity of copper imports, now averaging 25,500 tons a month; that almost every shred of present steel capacity is being utilized, even to moving Negro families out of old beehive ovens in the South. He points to the automobile industry...