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...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...
Their other basic raw material is coke. With all by-product coke ovens working at capacity, many an oldfashioned, high-cost, beehive oven (once homes for the unemployed) was fired last week. Meanwhile the demand for coking coal outran the capacity of the steelmakers' "captive" mines, sent them into the commercial market. Result: the ailing soft-coal industry is headed toward 10,000,000 tons a week (its 1939 average: 7,800,000 tons a week), and many a factory manager began to think it might be a good idea to stack some extra coal in the yard just...
...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...
Folkways is not so startling today as when it was published 33 years ago. Its basic theme - that the development of society is governed by hard evolutionary principles-is now taken for granted by every educated person. At that time this knowledge was still largely an academic possession. The first application of Darwinian theory to human customs and institutions had been made by Huxley. From Huxley, Sumner went on, demolishing one cherished faith after another, with what he called "shovelfuls of facts...
Calculators, who gave the G. 0. P. a basic strength of 16,000,000 votes in the national balloting, estimated that the number of independent votes floating around the U. S. was roughly...