Word: balms
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...Jeremiah? "Surely, there must be some balm in Gilead for a coal miner...
...many years-ever since "Puddler Jim" Davis took Dewey into the Labor Department-he has been bouncing back & forth between Washington, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, spreading balm. A onetime railroad telegrapher, 59-year-old Jim Dewey has become the government's ace mediator. His methods are simple: get 'em together, keep 'em cool, let 'em talk...
...more than the simple, spectacular Graduation Parade that thus took place one afternoon this week. To relatives and sweethearts it was the grand climax to the grinding life they had been hearing about for months or years. To plebes it meant the end of their sorest year and the balm of recognition by upperclassmen. To the graduating class it marked a poignant end and a challenging beginning. And to the Long Grey Line, some of them stooped in mufti, it symbolized the yearly renewal of a strong, 143-year-old tradition to which they had devoted the best part...
...Instantly the slack in the ring around Germany snapped taut; instantly the eastern front became a magnet pulling on German reserves, including those with which Rundstedt was still toying in the west. Much was hoped for from this new Red assault, both as a military contribution and as a balm for inter-Allied political tensions...
...Balm for Dow. To Dow Chemical (only prewar U.S. magnesium manufacturer) the mild praise was sweet. But even sweeter to the company's white-haired president, Dr. Willard H. Dow, was the deathblow the Committee gave to the popular belief that the U.S. magnesium shortage was due to an agreement between Dow, Alcoa and Germany's I.G. Farben. Under that deal-so the libelous rumor ran-Dow magnesium manufacture was limited, while German production was kited. Other agreements brought antitrust indictments down on the heads of Dow and Alcoa in 1941, forced them...