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...experts also found serious flaws in the work of Allied intelligence-primarily a failure to grasp the significance of the vast, interlocking chemical-oil-rubber-explosives complex, which flourished from a single, synthetic root...
...note my friend, the editor of PM, too, has the publisher's complex. If anyone differs, the other fellow must be wrong. So he is just another publisher. If he were a couple of feet shorter, he would be like Roy Howard. If he had a couple of million more, he would be like Ogden Reid, and if he had the gout, he would be like [the New York Daily News's Captain Joe] Patterson, and each of them thinks he is a Joseph Pulitzer...
...combat the real causes of inflation. Only 41% of the cost of war was paid for by taxation; the rest was financed by selling Government bonds, almost one-half to banks. This created what Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Eccles calls "monetization of the public debt": by the complex workings of modern finance, sale of a million dollars in Government bonds to a bank produces the same end result as printing a million $1 bills...
...Antigone's emotions that can stir him. In Sophocles' version, the plot at least has the psychology of a superstitious age and a religious people behind it-although even this has not kept Sophocles' Antigone from sometimes being accounted a young woman with a decided martyr complex...
...Etonian editors, are rank with verbiage, due to "a popular misconception that to use long words is a sign of an expensive education. . . . We prefer a homely remark such as 'You've got some cheek, Bert' to 'Herbert, you are suffering from an inverted inferiority complex...