Word: directives
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...years later II Duce was to put an arm around Miller's shoulder, tell him "Maybe I shall be a reporter again, too." Webb Miller made a warm friend of Spain's Primo de Rivera during the Riff campaign, later wangled direct news items from him, toll prepaid. Astride a sandbagged parapet, he flashed the first news of Italy's advance on Ethiopia, got the word to Rome ahead of the official Italian story...
...feast & famine industries, shipbuilding knows the worst extremes. Dependent on the Navy and (for most cargo vessels) on Government subsidy, it waxes fat or lean in direct ratio to Administration policy. From 1865 until World War I it piddled along on Navy contracts, built only enough merchant ships to carry 15% of U. S. foreign trade. When that war came, the "Bridge of Ships" frenzy gave it a $3,000,000,000 handout for 2,300 merchant vessels, mushroomed it to 211 yards...
Dealing with the question of opportunity for high school students after graduation, Dean Spaulding recommended several radical reforms of the present educational system, in which "there is little direct connection between success in school and success in making a beginning outside of school...
...There is disturbing evidence that our capacity to produce new and potentially destructive instruments of power has outrun our capacity to control and direct them for constructive social ends." Dean Donham declared. "In 1989, industry spent some $215,000,000 on pure and applied science. The job was to find new products and processes and the result was to atimulate and accelerate social change
...burden of adjustment lies partly with the scientists themselves. Dean Donham stated; they must "consciously direct scientific thought toward social problems." But more important in his opinion are the responsibilities of government administrators. Here "the scope of political action must be clearly defined." Detailed control of business, in his opinion, requires great bureaucracies, which in return require a dictator with "power to break through the coils of red tape if the machine is to function...