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Said Dr. Compton: "It is my hope that this foundation may be an example and pattern of what an industrial group can do when it devotes a portion of its energies and resources to a sincere effort to help humanity without thought of self-interest ... by so doing it will, in the long run, have well served its own interests...
Last week the pattern of the U.S. people's coming re-education was already visible in many places...
...this sort of thought we can and must arrive at a unified pattern of war aims. It is based on the two great intellectual advances we have made in the last twenty years: the realist approach to history, which has taught us that things are often not what they seem, and the realist school of literature (Hemingway, Dos Passos, Remarque) which has developed the idea that the real motive of all ideologies and governments is the furthering of the individual in his simple and personal life. These are great advances toward the solution of the industrial problem that is racking...
...first crashing blows were so widespread that it looked as if the Japanese were trying to realize their "Heavensent," Hell-patented ambition of dominating the Pacific all at one fell shock. Actually they had no such crazy plan. They had, instead, a pattern of attack for a first move which was brilliant, thorough, audacious, and apparently in its first two days, successfully carried through...
...speeding up the rest of the ground forces, the Army in hearings and by press handouts announced that it was buying more than 100,000 multi-wheel-drive trucks, some 20,000 jeeps, was remodeling three more divisions (the Sixth, Seventh, Ninth) to fit the pattern of the experimental Fourth. They will become in effect half-armored outfits, with infantry to back up the tanks...