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...parallel between American isolationism, Russia's withdrawal into nationalism and Britain's desire to be left alone. Basically. Britain had always relied on playing one European nation against another, a policy now "irrevocably destroyed by the inexorable march of military and economic developments toward larger and more complex forms of organization...
...they use exercises for difficulties which they recognize as muscular (cross eyes, walleyes, etc.). Exercise equipment may be simply a pin which a patient watches while it is brought up to his nose, or a complex instrument like the synoptophore, third cousin to a stereoscope, which not only exercises eyes but helps diagnosis as well. An eye-exerciser sponsored by American Optical Co.'s Dr. J. F. Neumueller (see cut) combines mirrors, lenses, lights and stereoscopic images to give eye muscles a strenuous workout...
Spain does not get Lend-Lease aid; its purchases have been financed through a complex series of loans and trade exchanges. Said Hayes: "The U.S. stands ready to continue and extend any help it can to Spain, which itself is doing so much to develop a peace economy that can, and will, carry this country safely into a future period of world peace...
Representative Lyndon Baines Johnson, dark, trim Texas New Dealer, last week reported simply to the House on a complex problem-baffling every war agency. Since the war, absenteeism had doubled, tripled in many war plants...
Half a dozen independent studies traced job absences to causes more complex than simple malingering or hangovers. Poor housing, overcrowded transportation, fatigue caused by long hours were given equal weight with labor hoarding, inadequate supervision, bad scheduling of work, failure to obtain materials in advance...