Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was an embarrassed silence, and then the London News Chronicle's Paul Winterton got up slowly. "I should like to add to Mr. Kendrick's remarks," said he. "Not only is our only source of news about the Russian fronts what we read in the papers from your correspondents, but furthermore we consider that a poor source. . . . We think we could do much better work if we were allowed to go to the front...
This week, the Brookings Institution, famed for its economic studies, put out its own carefully considered estimate of postwar U.S. income, in an attempt to clear up the confusion. Net result was to add to the confusion, by stirring up a first-class row among economists. For one thing, the Brookings estimate was $123 billion, substantially lower than the most popular $140 billion boxcar figure which businessmen roll off their tongues. But the Brookings Institution then went on, in a brochure titled Postwar National Income, to whack all other postwar estimators as, in effect, so many dizzards, noodles, lackwits...
PHANTOM VICTORY-Erwin Lessner-Putnam ($2.50). "The curtain falls," said the German chief of staff to the assembled generals, "but the play is not over. . . . The National Socialist era ... was just an episode in the life of our nation. . . . You will discard your uniforms, [but] may I add that politics is a continuation of war by other means...
...rescue the lovely sheltered Julia from her maternal cocoon, but once he had married her he found himself, like Ulysses, in a land where it was always afternoon. The way in which he won his freedom and at last induced Julia to face up to life may not add to the sum of human knowledge, but it won its author the $10,000 Dodd, Mead-Redbook contest and will probably win her several times 10,000 readers...
This month Pavot will retire to the same 1,650-acre farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore where War Admiral prepped for his 1937 Derby victory. He should add 150 lbs. to his big frame while being winter-trained on mild workouts and gallops. Meanwhile bespectacled Oscar White, his trainer, isn't worried about the Futurity-Derby bugaboo and doesn't think Pavot...