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BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT: "The New Deal legislation of the thirties helped to provide a 'built-in' consumer demand that business could then work to satisfy . . . I hope this quarter-century will see a frank recognition that every new frontier in American progress has been, and will always be, opened up by the joint enterprise of business and government...
...machines get more complicated, quick-acting and violent, they are more prone to self-destruction if something goes wrong. Some nuclear reactors, for instance, can turn into radioactive junk in a fraction of a second. To avoid such misadventures, most modern mechanical and electronic systems are equipped with built-in monitors that watch their operation and shut them down promptly at the first sign of trouble. But if a vacuum tube or relay in the monitor fails, the main machine is like a building whose night watchman has dropped dead. Trouble can start and get out of hand with...
...third-class mail- were open to argument on detail. But there could be no doubt that some increase was necessary in all three classes of mail. Congress-which last year denied a similar Summerfield request-was faced with a clear choice: higher postal rates or indefinite continuance of the built-in Post Office deficit...
Slichter outlined four reasons for this economic development: (1) the growth of built-in stabilizers; (2) the improvement in the art of business management; (3) the rapid growth of the new "industry of discovery," and (4) the great improvement in the position of consumers...
Symphony, he paces about his penthouse with lips clamped in the expression of the well-known bust in the music room; but somehow, with his fluttery dimples and impetuous curls, he looks rather more like a pink plastic dolly with built-in colic...