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...consumer-goods production, based on an overall minimum schedule of civilian needs. Ferd Eberstadt has been heckling Civilian Supply Boss Leon Henderson for just such a schedule for weeks, so far with a notable lack of success. But at least Planner Eberstadt now has a complete and sensible framework to fit a civilian-supply program into when one is finally evolved. "While this may not be the last plan," said he this week, "it is somewhere near the last. That is not because human ingenuity is limited but because human patience is limited...
Herbert Agar is not afraid to deliver a sermon. A Time for Greatness is a 300-page editorial on democracy that has the fervor and some of the moral reach of the Old Testament prophets. Two quotations set the framework of Agar's thinking...
...door remains open," said the Secretary of State for India, "for the consideration of any proposals agreed to by the leaders of the other main parties within the framework of the British Government's declaration of policy." But the Secretary of State for India did not state how a representative wartime national Government could be formed without at least a nod toward the Congress...
Five years ago Holiday Inn was a musical note in Songsmith Berlin's melodious mind. He wanted to drape a Broadway show around a series of songs for U.S. national holidays. Holiday Inn provided him with the right framework. According to its episodic plot, Singer Crosby turns his rural retreat into a roadhouse on every holiday in order to make country life pay, and to give himself and Fred Astaire a chance to sing and dance...
Also may I point out to the Crimson the part which Harvard and other lawyers are taking in the preparation of contracts, legislation, and regulations which are the very framework within which our war effort operates. Men able to see through to the essence of confusing regulations and complicated legal problems are sought eagerly both for corporative practice and for vital jobs within the war machine itself. A few of these jobs are: 1) Judge-Advocate branches of the Army and Navy which enforce and maintain military discipline. 2) Army and Navy supply branches to negotiate contracts and interpret regulations...