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...stressed, however, that this service would only be available to those men who mailed postcards to PBH addressed: "Contact, Phillips Brooks House, Cambridge, Mass.," and giving their addresses. PBH will then be in a position to provide the required information. The success of the plan will of course depend upon the number of men who mail cards...
...pleasing vitamin in music is consonance, as in such agreeable harmonies as the standard Do Mi Sol Do. When composers wish to ennoble, invigorate or inspire their listeners (as for example in the opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
Taking as its point of departure the Beveridge report (TIME, Dec. 14), the Economist points out what every U.S. businessman knows, namely that social security legislation is meaningless unless it is combined with the maintenance of tolerably full employment. The maintenance of full employment in turn depends on 1) a high level of consumer buying; 2) a high level of investment; 3) a high level of foreign trade upon which will depend the "British standard of living, the level of national prosperity, and the possibility of social security...
...Pacific front: the Germans were pocketed on a series of "islands," where the beleaguered armies could survive only so long as they were supplied from centers many miles away. As rail and road routes fell to the Russians and advance depots were depleted, the Germans had to depend more & more on supply...
Cushion for Casualties. Yet soon or late, and probably soon, more concentration will be on the way. To carry it out much will depend on the good sense of the Government and the small businessman himself. For the latter the hardest lesson of all is that though he is fighting for his life, so after all is his country. For Government the biggest problem is to provide some means of compensation, without engaging in monumental subsidies, so that businesses which are squeezed out now can reappear later. Best notion yet advanced is Donald Nelson's recommendation to Congress last...