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Said the committee's cool and temperate report: "Despite the occurrence of isolated instances of labor disagreements which appear to have received undue prominence in the press, there is every evidence of an increasing determination on the part of both management and workers to develop voluntary methods for the adjustment of labor difficulties and thus to prevent production stoppage...
...approach to the problem of "filling out knowledge of man," the Harvard Hygiene Department has undertaken the so-called Grant Study in Social Adjustments,--an investigation of normal, healthy undergraduates, by the techniques of medicine, psychology, psychiatry, physiology, anthropology, and other sciences. "Our approach is designed to develop our knowledge of man as a functioning organism, especially of the kind of man who is able on the whole to meet his responsibilities in general," Dr. Bock explained...
...About 95% of the expenditure on agricultural research went toward increasing production; only 5% to discover new uses for agricultural products. While vitamins provided a $100,000,000 industry, the food values of seaweed were studied, and grass continued to develop as a health food...
...Peattie thinks, nudged mankind into history. The human mind had to evolve to meet ice-age problems of finding shelter, food, defense, and has probably not progressed since the great glacier withdrew. Then nomadic men settled in the grasslands of the Nile, Euphrates, Yangtze, etc., to become tillers and develop cultures. Out of the nomadic, pastoral life of the early Jews grew the symbolism of their religion and of Christianity-e.g., "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want...
...first half of 1941. What will America do in that crisis? Can anyone picture President Roosevelt, and those enthusiasts Henry Stimson and Frank Knox, sitting back cautiously at such a time? Perhaps they have nothing definite in mind. They say they have to wait and see how things develop. But it is essential that we get from them some indication of what they might or might not do, if we are to place such wide discretion in their hands...