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Prosperous Bankrupts. Despite all this, roads in reorganization have made so much money during the war that they are actually solvent. Some examples: in four and a half years, the Cotton Belt (St.Louis-Southwestern) earned its annual interest charges 42 times and made about $150 a common share to boot; in 1944, the Missouri Pacific had excess profits of $46,380,000-larger than any other railroad system in the U.S. except the Santa Fe. Yet the Cotton Belt, Mopac and other roads with good wartime profit records continue in reorganization...
...Braunowitz, a Russian immigrant, was a grimy, scholarly, embittered man, who had nagged his simple wife into animal dullness and shirked his responsibilities as a father. Strong-willed daughter Deborah had backed up her mother and made herself the "father" of the family-and a Lesbian to boot. Daughter Rosannah had dutifully earned her living by serving in bars-which, to John's tortured, hypersensitive imagination, meant that she dallied with the barflies. Daughter Sarah had fled into the arms of a man she did not love, and her children's doleful life exactly reflected her own despair...
...themselves. For too many of them, College was just an extension of pre school book-learning and prep school thinking. Their existence was dominatingly conditioned by the imminence of military duty, and while their outlook was not one of "let's make merry for tomorrow we must go to boot camp," something was missing...
...five glassy-eyed locksmiths in the dock (three generals, two admirals) then heard Colonel Taylor read a damning affidavit by one of their own clique. Its author was Field Marshal Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg, who had been German War Minister until 1938, when he was given the boot, ostensibly for marrying a prostitute. Wrote Blomberg: ". . . There was no reason to oppose Hitler since he produced the results which [the generals] desired...
...splendor. From Iran's jewel-studded Peacock Throne his father grimly ordered his enemies murdered or jailed, ruled his "court with a caprice that ranged from slapping ministers in the face to kicking subjects in the crotch. (Once, rumor had it, the young Prince himself felt the royal boot and landed in a palace fountain...