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...American taxpayers, through their ever-generous agent, the American Government, purchased from Joe's operations three-quarters of a billion dollars worth of uranium at $10 per lb., when the offered price in Canada was between $2.75 and $5. Joe should, and I suspect does, sing God Bless America at least twice each morning as he is being shaved...
Just how rich, even his wildest dreams could not have told him. White Christmas has sold 49,960,645 records, has been recorded 400 times, and has earned Berlin well over $1,000,000. Easter Parade has become a profitable perennial, as has God Bless America, whose royalties-more than $400,000 -Berlin turned over to the Boy and Girl Scouts. Annie still takes in $75,000 annually in stock and amateur rights, apart from royalties earned through performances of songs from the show. The World War II musical, This Is the Army, made nearly $10 million, with all royalties...
...paperback in 1962. Its appearance now in hardcover, reversing the usual procedure, can be regarded as an amusement tax chargeable to the author's growing reputation as a satirist. Vonnegut's targets are institutional: religion (Cat's Cradle), science and technology (Player Piano), philanthropy (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine). Here the target appears to be patriotism. From Nazi Germany, Howard W. Campbell Jr. broadcasts Hitler's propaganda to the West. Even his wife does not know that he is a U.S. counter-intelligence agent and that he is transmitting valuable military information...
...Colonel Moore broke out a bottle of Jim Beam bourbon and warmly toasted 1) the President of the U.S., 2) victory in South Viet Nam, and 3) "the loyal, brave and great infantry soldier who has to run around tired, stinking dirty, with wet feet, under enemy fire. God bless...
...brown shawl she wore a rosebud, just as Nehru had always worn one as his talisman of grace and hope in a sometimes graceless and hopeless land. Her hands held palm to palm in the traditional Indian greeting of namaste, she approached former Finance Minister Morarji Desai. "Will you bless my success?" she asked. "I give you my blessing," he replied. Then Indira Gandhi, the only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, took her seat and waited for the parliamentary members of the ruling Congress Party to elect a Prime Minister to replace Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died in Tashkent two weeks...