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Liquidation of the massive conglomeration, enough to fill two whopping museums, went well enough at first. Auctions and private sales in the U. S. and London brought in about $800,000 cash. But the bottomless market which could give Hearst anything he wanted-at a price-couldn't take it back. Dealers were afraid the market's carefully nurtured price structure would collapse under the weight...
...Motors. Once a munitions-maker, Du Pont had diversified its business to the point where powder was less than 2% of its sales. Chrysler and G. M., too, wanted no part of the war as an investment. Each of these could have refused the unwelcome orders. None did. With bottomless resources, they could have expanded mightily into munitions, cleaned up for a few years. They did not do that either. Each mobilized its men and skills, agreed to build and operate munitions plants for a very nominal sum above cost, the Government to own the plants. Result of this combination...
Those men who have worked with him at close range, who know that a deep, almost bottomless patience controls his every action, have two theories about...
...With a bottomless well of material at the disposal of Yale's Bob Kilputh, a victory over the Elis seemed all but impossible even at the start of the current season. Erasing the Bruin and Tiger defeats would be the chief objectives of the 1940 Ulenmen, and a single reversal at the hands of the all-powerful Blue would not mar an otherwise undefeated season...
...early last year Adolf Hitler had already shown the world that his bag of tricks was not bottomless. Instead of winning another bloodless conquest in Poland, he ran his land empire at last afoul the sea empire of Britain-and into an expensive, probably long and debilitating war which may well end disastrously for him and his country. The Allies have not cracked his Westwall-but he has not cracked their Maginot Line. His vaunted air fleet has not leveled Britain, as advertised, and once again Germany finds herself dangerously blockaded by the British Fleet...