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...United States must sell this new policy to governments and industrial leaders who can remember a time when Yankee investors looked upon the Marine Corps as their first line of economic guarantee. Furthermore, South American economics equates private investment from the United States with a strong desire to dominate built-up enterprises and drive out the native entrepreneurs. Aside from South American fears, the new Administration faces the problem of inducing domestic capital to leave the local security of equitable laws and sane SEC regulations for Latin America's often inhospitable economic policies...
...seems to me that the presidential press conference and the State of the Union message ought not to be used for such deceptive practices as this ... If the number can't be broken down, it should never have been built up." Some Republicans, who implied that the built-up number was loaded with built-in Communists, were vulnerable to Truman's charge. But Harry Truman was hoaxing himself when he pointed an accusing finger directly at Dwight Eisenhower's State of the Union message: in that message, the President did not mention Communists in connection with...
...agricultural Indians was smallpox. The villagers along the river-the Mandans, Hidatsa, Arikara, et al.-held off nomadic enemies by means of their greater numbers, their fortifications and their superior culture. But when the first whites brought smallpox, the Indians were especially vulnerable. The plague swept through their densely built-up villages and killed most of their inhabitants. The Sioux were not hit as hard. When the disease appeared, the Sioux scattered, each family for itself, until the epidemic had subsided. Then, still strong, the nomads attacked the weakened villages and destroyed most of the survivors...
...there were a few more plane crashes in built-up areas, the airlines would be faced with a strong public demand to put airports much farther from city centers. This would cut heavily into airline traffic by reducing their time advantage over ground transport on shorter runs...
...speaking, MacArthur was dead right. In fact, the four steps he urged had been lifted from a J.C.S. proposal which had been sent him in Tokyo for comment. But whereas the J.C.S. had used the term "air reconnaissance," MacArthur went on to urge the right to "destroy the enemy built-up bases north of the Yalu" and in this he did not claim that the J.C.S. supported him, whatever the headlines, editorial writers or hasty orators said in the next 24 hours. Obviously, with his carefully phrased charge, MacArthur had scored an effective blow...