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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...There is little appeal in such a pro gram," Hoffman admitted, "but . . . Europe must have dollars to buy goods from us, and if we don't want to give her those dollars, we should let her earn them." To ease the shock, Hoffman suggested some form of direct "relief" for victims of foreign competition. Secretary of State Dean Acheson agreed that "very substantial steps" would be necessary. Said Acheson: "I should not think we could say: 'Well, we must do it and the chips will have to fall, and whoever suffers will have to suffer." I should think...
...treasury of the vehement, sonorous and shamelessly corny phrasing which is the tribal language of U.S. politics. Cried Georgia's sandy-haired Congressman William Wheeler: " [the bill] is conceived in iniquity and nurtured with the milk of corruption . . . [It] promises ... in the name of liberty [a] most reprehensible form of slavery . . ." "FEPC," bawled Alabama's George Mclnvale Grant, "stands for Tree Enterprise Perishes Completely...
...real explanation, says Dr. Bowden, is the "appalling swiftness with which death in the form of natural diseases snatches the young." A baby may be overwhelmed in a few hours by a disease of such an "explosive" type that no symptoms are showing when the child is put to bed. Most of the explosive diseases which kill infants in bed (sometimes by suffocation) involve the upper respiratory tract, ears or heart...
Wrath & Terror. Unhappily, Author Hersey chooses to tell the story in novel form, and employs one of the oldest and least effective technical tricks for giving fiction the authentic tang of fact: he pretends that he is merely the editor of papers written by Eyewitness Noach Levinson. This gabbiest of notetakers is supposed to have lived out the days of wrath and terror pen in hand, documenting the horror minute by minute, until he had built up a jumbo collection of manuscript and clippings filling 17 iron boxes and a number of parcels. These he buried before slipping away through...
...cellar of the unconscious, and the writer traps them as they break for the open. According to Bergler, the writer's function is like that of a man erecting a prefabricated house; in writing, he merely assembles slabs of his inner conflicts and his repressed desires in story form...