Word: existent
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...During a war the waste and extravagance induced by excess profits taxation are limited in two ways. A sense of urgency and a concentration of effort exist which probably cannot be maintained during a long-continued defense effort short of total war. Also, limitations on available manpower and materials make it physically impossible to do many of the extravagant things which would be done in the absence of widespread controls and allocations. But with the represents of short manpower and short materials loss strong in a semimobilized economy, the tendency to waste engendered by an excess profits tax would have...
...filly, Daisy Mae Scragg -are human enough to have their own poor but burning ambitions and prejudices. They are also so incredibly innocent that they can be duped by a child. The man or woman who does not gain some sense of superiority from their gullibility probably does not exist; and millions of red-blooded young men have clenched their fists with exasperation at Abner's failure to respond to the lovesick Daisy...
...Copper and Brass Inc.: "There is actually enough metal to support the 1949 level of civilian output, the present high rate of stockpiling and military demands as now forecast." Hoarding and abnormal conditions, he said, have caused "the illusion of tremendous shortages of copper which in fact do not exist...
...control them? Dos Passes sees only one way: vigorous individual participation in all parts of the community. Among the developments that cheer him most: the use of profit-sharing devices, suggestion systems, management-labor committees, cooperative methods of enterprise. These, says Dos Passes, "are frail straws but they exist ... I believe that our salvation depends on our making a stand and recklessly investing all our hopes and energies in [them]. The margin for error is narrowing with breathtaking rapidity. The time is coming when every citizen will have to ask himself at every hour of the day: Is what...
...West cleavage in the world is much more clearly defined. China has gone Communist, Germany appears to be permanently divided, and we have even had a little "hot" war in the Pacific. But the fact that the United Nations is still meeting at all, and that conference tables still exist after five years of vetoes, boycotts, slanders, and unilateral action, can be taken as an encouraging sign...