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From the 60 million "human units" between the ages of 16 and 65, the country has about 7,000,000 men to call into the Amry and Navy with requirements at the present level, the general asserted, adding that to maintain striking forces on five fronts as we are today, more men have to be called from civilian life...
Last July, for the first time, monthly outgo crossed $1 billion. By January 1942 the $2 billion milepost whizzed by. In April the figure was $3.2 billions; an incredible billion-a-week total is in sight. To maintain a 50-50 ratio between borrowing and taxing to meet war costs, Henry the Morgue faced the job of selling about $25 billions a year of Treasury securities. Notion Counter...
...subdivisions the reduction runs up to 70%, thanks to the repetitive methods possible with large orders. (Last week Henry Kaiser got an order for 80 more Liberty Ships.) These reductions in man-hours may mean that, after the next peace, U.S. shipbuilders (if they still get large orders) can maintain the U.S. standard of living and still compete with the world without Government aid. "That," said Henry Kaiser last week, "is precisely my dream...
...maximum of expert instruction and the rest who slide through Harvard with a maximum of snap courses. That Harvard gives more honors degrees than any other university of its rank in the country is due directly to the uniformly high standard which the tutorial system has done much to maintain. Such a division of the students not only destroys the value of a degree; it is unwise and artificial. In the Class of 1935 for example, 24 of the 159 men who carried home honors degrees were in Group V and below their first two years. With many men staying...
Whilst I am writing to you, will you also allow me to mention the article [in TIME, April 27], entitled "Belgium's Finest," which speaks of Belgium as a "conquered" country, whereas all the Belgians maintain, and not unreasonably, that the country is occupied but certainly not conquered. This is of course a secondary point, inasmuch as all the Belgians are certainly very much pleased with the article...