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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Against the time when ceilings might become necessary, he established one new agency: a somewhat shadowy Economic Stabilization Agency which would "guide our voluntary efforts," move in with selective controls on presidential order. Under ESA's administrator would be a Director of Price Stabilization (who might become a sort of latter-day Chester Bowles) and a Wage Stabilization Board made up of representatives of labor, management and the public (a latter-day War Labor Board...
...desk had a pile of papers on it. Gay looked at them with distaste, plunked down his helmet. "I've been having myself a hell of a time," he said as if to himself. He looked at the papers and added: "But I guess that's the sort of thing generals ought not to be doing...
...journalism-school graduates were not all they should be, Editor Young wanted to know, were the liberal-arts graduates better? Most editors said that they did not care what sort of a degree a young man had. The best training was "a broad basic education with plenty of accent on literature, economics and history...
...this: historically, sea power is the most mobile and therefore the most economical form of military force. For 3,000 years or more, navies fought on the two-dimensional ocean surface. The carrier-based plane gave navies the third dimension of the air. It has even given them a sort of fourth dimension-a sweep of 500 miles or more inland from any coast. Nearly all the economic and political power centers of the world lie within 500 miles of deep water...
Hemingway was the champ all right. He was past 50, but still the champ, and he was ready to take on all comers. He had said so himself, to a New Yorker writer, only a few months before: "It is sort of fun to be 50 and feel you are going to defend the title again. I won it in the twenties [A Farewell to Arms] and defended it in the thirties (To Have and Have Not] and the forties [For Whom the Bell Tolls], and I don't mind at all defending it in the fifties...