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...your issue of July 21, you gave a fine story of the progress made by the Department of Agriculture in gaining control of the farming element of the nation. You state in almost so many words that the Department expects soon to control all agricultural activities except the minor details. And further on in the article you suggest that through the control of agriculture, control of all business will be obtained. If this is true and I believe you are correct, it means that the Government will have the power of complete control over every individual life in the nation...
Frankensteen was persuaded to abandon Reuther, flop over to Addes' side; he was slated for a new office especially created: U.A.W. vice president. The radical element in U.A.W. was to be let alone. Communists in North American Aviation Corp., who two months before had engineered a wildcat strike (TIME, June 16) and defied U.A.W. and C.I.O. leaders, and whom the Reuther group wanted to hang and quarter, were to be given a thoroughgoing slap on the wrist. The whole program was to be labeled "harmony...
Army. "The military and the civilian throughout our history have regarded each other with suspicion, usually justified on both sides. . . . What the people of the U.S. never tried was to make the armed forces their own, to make them a functional element of democracy, to make them so much the people's army and the people's navy that the armed forces . . . would be regarded with the same pride that is lavished on other national accomplishments...
...Americans also learned that the winters aren't so cold and the defenses aren't so hot. Even though Iceland is tangent to the Arctic Circle, its air is warmed by the Gulf Stream, its houses by water piped from its many hot springs. The best natural element of defense is Lake Thingvalla, which, because it is fed by these hot springs, never freezes, and is therefore ideal for flying patrol boats. Otherwise the advantages of the natural defenses are offset by the scarcity of roads and materiel-scarcities which the Yanks knew their Army would...
...clumsy, costly, tricky. A concave cylindrical mirror, clockworked to follow the sun, focuses the solar rays on a vacuum-insulated tube filled with a heat-absorbing liquid such as black petroleum. As the petroleum heats, it rises to a reservoir, from which cool petroleum then descends into the heating element by gravity. As the reservoir gets hotter, it can be used for cooking, generating steam and even refrigerating (by the absorption method). In a large ma chine, heat gathered during sunny days will last usefully through several cloudy days...