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Whereas in World War I the "submarine menace" was the only thing to fear, the threat this time has come from all these new factors. A recent breakdown of British sea losses by cause...
...along as delightfully as in Chapter I. But the planning itself begins dubiously and ends with the grim words, "a diversity about fundamentals is intolerable." With this destruction of individualism, Noah Wells makes clear the fact that Noah Lammock has become "an overwhelming menace." The rest is almost unmitigated breakdown. God plays the harmonium, Lammock preaches, underfed rhinoceroses lie about "like huge unpacked leather bags," the whole voyage disintegrates into weak comic strip. At length God identifies the Jonah, the unstrainable fly in the human ointment. He is "the essential treacherous cunning in man, the 'save...
...genuine reporter of world events and become a propaganda sheet for the subversive forces which are wrecking civilization throughout the world, our own country included. It was these same forces whose work your magazine is doing which were responsible for the Red hell in Russia, the breakdown in Italy, the collapse in France, the Red horror in Spain, now happily crushed but at fearful cost, for the present plight of England, for Hitler's regime in Germany as a counteroffensive and for the economic misery, confusion and breakdown in our own country. Hitlerism, which you profess to hate...
...personnel, 30,500 in 1938, up to 550,000 by Aug. 1- greater than last year's average in the steel or automobile industries. And if Detroit's assembly-line methods are barred to them, planemakers have a trick or two of their own. One is the "breakdown" policy of James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, onetime chief engineer for Douglas and now president of North American Aviation, Inc. (former General Motors subsidiary). Until recently airplanes were assembled like ships. But Dutch Kindelberger, who speaks of his job as "a manipulation of shortages," saves North American...
...considerable number of able boys who are unable to go to college at all because of limited financial resources or who can obtain a college training only by an excessively heavy burden of outside work, which often defeats the purpose of attending college and frequently leads to a breakdown in health. It is hoped that through these new arrangements Harvard College may render a useful service to the community by widening the opportunities of education regardless of residence, birth, and financial circumstances...