Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creative, and "as a mark of respectability" pays its contributors $30 an article. Its "Spectator's Appraisal," one of two regular departments, assays such solid stuff as Toynbee's A Study of History and Northrop's The Meeting of East and West. "Tradition and the Skeptic," the other, usually takes the skeptic's side...
...Administrative Board no charge is greater than the standard which is figured on a basis of cost of labor plus cost of material, plus twenty-five percent overhead. Opening a fire door or breaking a window comes under official censure and entails a fine as well ad replacement. The skeptic who views twenty-five percent overhead with wincing eye might be reminded that no professional contractor operates even near this margin nor has he any urge...
Billions on Parade. The President's budget was based on confidence that this goal could be attained. (All budgets are based on some such assumption; a skeptic last week defined a budget as "Mr. Micawber masquerading as a certified public accountant.") The budget was a whopper for peacetime, calling for the expenditure of $37.5 billion.* But it had one great virtue: clarity. The President had broken the figures down into ten categories, clearly labeled according to where the money goes...
...With atomic bombs and radar in mind, the skeptic may well ask what the physicist thinks he has been doing during these past five years, if not physics...
...into his office. Pleased as an outsized Punch, he "announced that the Argentine Government had abolished all press censorship. Henceforth the newsmen might cable their stories direct, without subterfuge, delay or fear of retaliation. The correspondents were properly gratified, gave hard-hitting Braden much of the credit. Only one skeptic remarked: "Seems we heard this before...