Word: might
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Businessmen recently had been receiving reassuring clucks from Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer, but that might be expected of a man with Sawyer's business background. Last week none other than Leon Keyserling, for 17 years an avid New Dealer and Fair Dealer, looked up from a new study of business and announced a new "trend of thinking." The Government, said Keyserling, approves of businessmen; it loves them just as much, say, as it loves the farmers and organized labor...
...fantastic story. It repeated vehemently that no reported flying saucer had ever proved genuine. And it disbanded its Project Saucer, a group with headquarters at Wright Field, Ohio, that had been investigating all flying-saucer reports. Apparently its continued existence encouraged the growth of rumors by suggesting that there might be something back of them, after all. It was announced last week that Project Saucer's files including pictures (none of them genuine flying saucers) would be placed on public exhibition in the Pentagon. From now on, said the Air Force, its only similar activity would be the conventional...
...Mass, got its first all-nylon mill; in Taftville, Conn., the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. transformed field corn into a new fiber called "Vicara," to be used for ties, scarves, etc. In Ohio, found-rymen excitedly poured experimental batches of "nodular iron," hoped that the new process, using magnesium, might revolutionize the whole casting industry...
...sure," he nodded, "and superbly ... Of course it might be necessary to sacrifice your more intimate charms...
...such pilgrims as has yet been collected in one volume: there are Novelists Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, Andre Gide, Journalist Louis Fischer, Poet Stephen Spender, and there is an introduction by British Laborite M.P. Richard Grossman, who thinks that but for his own "nonconformist cussedness" he might have been tempted by Communism himself. The stories the six contributors tell may be read as strange and dreadful Canterbury Tales of the 20th Century...