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...only an outline but it pointed out two basic facts: 1) that any expansion of the economy can absorb only a few millions of workers in any given year, 2) that when peace comes the U.S. must find peacetime jobs for all its man power, otherwise "we shall be back in the valley of the depression...
Sumner Welles is naturally fitted to his work, tailored to it as accurately as his clothes are tailored to him. First and most important, he is tough-minded, with the quality of mental resilience that can absorb pressures and withstand shocks, a sort of intellectual defense-in-depth. He has a firm hold on every one of the diplomatic virtues: he is absolutely precise, imperturbable, accurate, honest, sophisticated, thorough, cultured, traveled, financially established. He has been through the mill; the only surprises left for Sumner Welles are those of destiny...
Sulfapyridine brings far better results than sulfanilamide, but it is a difficult drug for the body to absorb and excrete, also causes a "very troublesome nausea." At present it has a narrow range of use, for sulfathiazole is equally effective, less toxic...
...Dansk National-Socialistisk-Arbejderpartei (Danish Nazi party) under ridiculous Doctor Fritz Clausen has only 30,000 members, but there are nine other Danish-Nazi splinter groups. The Germans encourage this splintering to forward the disintegration of the country's political system. They hope to absorb Denmark whole...
...Nash and Studebaker, whose price increases were allowed after the Chrysler refusal, have not been making much money, and this-as well as their willingness to cooperate-was cited by OPACS men as a reason for not bearing down on them. "If a company is in a position to absorb cost increases, we're asking them to do it," said OPACS Price Director John Kenneth Galbraith; "the majors can do it, the minors cannot. " He formulated OPACS's rule of thumb: "Any company making reasonable profits, in the light of the past, should not increase prices...