Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...form of limitation on profits from Government contracts. On the cost of expanding to meet Defense needs, they overwhelmingly support (88%) a Forum suggestion-amortization of the cost of plants devoted to war orders within the period of the emergency, with the amortization charges paid into a suspended account, subject to taxation only in so far as the plant proves useful after the emergency. They believe that competitive bidding on war orders should be waived, to allocate orders to the plants best equipped to supply them fastest (75.5%). Most of them have not yet been given a preview...
...ballet, Letter to the World, danced by 16 Grahamites. For it U. S. Composer Hunter Johnson had written a substantial, lengthy musical score; U. S. Scenic Designer Arch Lauterer had built an unprecedented stage load of secret panels, revolving doors and trick modernistic lighting effects. The ballet's subject: Poet Emily Dickinson, the New England spinster who never went out of her Amherst, Mass, house for 24 years, got all her excitement in her own head. Choregrapher Graham divided her ballet in half, gave the Dr. Jekyll half to a pleasant, domestic-looking chorine who recited excerpts from Emily...
...Allen next tried choking off a human tumor. For his subject he chose a 76-year-old man with a large funguslike growth on his cheek, just in front of his ear. Working with Dr. Allen, Surgeon Robert Emery Brennan gave the patient a local anesthetic, punctured the skin around the margin of the tumor, passed rubber ligatures through these openings and tied off the arteries that supplied the tumor with blood. After an hour and a half, when the tumor had darkened slightly, the ligatures were untied...
...subject was "Unused Capital Resources and Waste." Its theme: to criticize an economy simply because it has idle machinery and idle men is not fair. Many firms serve themselves and the economy better with high-efficiency, high-capacity machinery run part of the time, than they would by running low-capacity, inefficient machinery more of the time. Most estimates of the "waste" caused by idle capital equipment measure a capitalist economy with a socialist yardstick. To liberal-capitalist Theorist Rockefeller, the goal to strike for, under any form of government, is optimum production achieved at minimum cost...
...iceberg, is recorded more of the nature, substance, detail of that bitterly remote, contemptuous, inhumanly self-pleased, almost divine prescience which is the essence of genius as Goethe had it-or as Thomas Mann observes and believes in it. Mann has here set down more on his subject than anyone has ever set down before...