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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight. In the South Pacific campaign he won the nickname "31-Knot Burke" from the speed with which he pushed his destroyer squadron into action. He became chief of staff in Marc Mitscher's mighty Task Force 58, won a chestful of medals, was promoted to the temporary rank of commodore. When the Navy's own war against the Air Force and the Defense Department broke out, Burke was assigned to head "Op-23," a compact and more or less secret Navy Department task force told off to organize and publicize the Navy's case...
...high prices on the farm, low prices in the grocery store, and Government subsidies to pay the difference. Kline favored instead a "sliding scale" parity program with a minimum of federal controls, based at an even lower level than the present compromise farm bill. But how did the rank & file of the prosperous, conservative Farm Bureau feel about it? Thousands of its members owed much of their current well-being to measures of the Truman Administration; thousands had voted for Harry Truman in 1948. With the Brannan Plan as bait, the Democrats were hoping to harvest the farm vote indefinitely...
Basing his conclusion on the assumptions that human behavior is a natural phenomenon and is an orderly process, Zipf listed three impediments to world domination. The first is the movement of persons, goods, information, and services which is subject to the harmonic law, governing the rank and size of cities...
...given up. The three-day week had saved him from a possible Taft-Hartley injunction, would keep the rank & file quiet and keep the coal stockpile down to a size where he might be able to use a coal shortage as a bargaining weapon. Lewis had also gained time in which to try to divide management by making separate agreements-a strategy which Phil Murray had used successfully against the steel industry. He badly needed...
Through a shrewd winnowing of repetitious and overwritten pieces, Editor Goodman manages to show Hearn at his best, but still does not succeed in lifting him into the first rank of19th Century U.S. writers. Lafcadio Hearn's brightest virtues were the human compassion that sweetened all of his work, and his ability to spin out atmosphere like yard after yard of fine Japanese silk...