Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...security of France runs out. One party gets the War Ministry and puts in its generals; another party takes over the ministry and sidetracks the first party's generals to make room for its own. Result: the generals are playing politics and the army is demoralized. Although the basic economy of the country has made a fine recovery, French government finances are muddled. Ossified bureaucracy stifles the national life; civil servants and other pressure groups control the national budget...
...Rockefeller brothers had poured more than $7,000,000 into their International Basic Economy Corp., and had started new Latin American businesses in partnership with local capital. Another $5,000,000 had gone into such enterprises as Filatures & Tissages Africains, to make textiles in the Belgian Congo for the local market. Sears, Roebuck, which had spent $20 million on new stores in Mexico, Brazil and other countries, last week opened a $2,000,000 store in Caracas...
What is this civilization? "The awakening of Western Europe that is normally called the Renaissance,'1 says Seitz, "brought something into the lives of men that had never before existed . . . The basic idea was that the minds of men should not be bounded in the larger sense by any pattern of dogma or tradition, but should be free to explore all aspects of life in all fields without restraint...
Hidden Sparks. The U.S. synagogue is no longer a community of believers, Herberg says. "This means that, in a very, basic respect, the synagogue of today is no longer the synagogue of the entire Jewish past. There have always been unbelievers . . . but in former times these people . . . were held in reproach by themselves and their fellow Jews. Only since the last century, and perhaps only in the past generation or two, has it become 'normal' for ... synagogue members to believe in and observe nothing in particular. This is surely something portentous...
Except for the system of cooperatives, most of these recommendations are already included in bills that stand a good chance of passage. Nevertheless, a basic flaw in the whole set of proposals was promptly spotted by the subcommittee's Republican minority, Ohio's Robert Taft and Massachusetts' Christian Herter. They thought that the subcommittee had missed the main point which its investigation brought out. One of the "fundamental causes" of small business failure was a lack of investment capital, said Taft & Herter. This was due mainly to the "high tax rates on middle and higher incomes...