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...Monday. He examined 6,000 witnesses, heard 20,000,000 words of testimony, indicted 500 men & women. Of those brought to trial, 94% have been convicted. Says modest Judge Ferguson: "My old Dad used to say, 'Even a blind hog will find an occasional acorn if he just keeps his nose down...
...Little Acorn. BEW began only last August as a 50? edition of Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare. All it had was Wallace, Perkins and a problem: in the delicate, murderous, bloodless warfare that is half diplomacy and half business, the U.S. was taking a bad licking...
...with China had been a war of vic tory. Newsreels had shown heaps of Chinese dead, never a Japanese body. But even victory had pinched Japan. Last week, as for many, many weeks, rice was rationed and bread, when available, was sour and heavy with acorn flour. Press notices warned: "Vegetable-Hungry People Not To Raid Fields in City's Suburbs...
...pleasant shock. The U.S. Army's Armored Force already has two crack divisions in the field, three in training, another about to be organized, plus 15 separate battalions. But it is now obvious that this force, far from being a military sapling, is little more than an acorn...
During the Presidency of Herbert Hoover, the able engineer and organizer under whose secretaryship the Department of Commerce grew from small acorn to many-branched oak, an element of U. S. Government unknown to the Founding Fathers really got going: government-by-agency. Reconstruction Finance Corp. was the Hoover era's modest prototype for what, after 1933, became known as Franklin Roosevelt's billionaire "alphabet soup...