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Holmes was in his final year at Harvard when Fort Sumter was bombarded. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry, was wounded three times. The second time, as he lay near death in a cornfield, a passing chaplain murmured: "You're a Christian, aren't you? Well then, that's all right." The third time his right heel was almost torn off. Captain Holmes kept the wound open with a sliver of carrot. "I pinched W's heel a little the other day," wrote his jolly father, "and asked him into what vegetable...
...well-greased machinery, at a cost of $858,000, for shipment to other plants. Buildings will be left standing for a time. The farmers were moving back to the fertile land. Quipped one, sardonically twisting the boast of plant-sprouting 1942: "You wouldn't believe it, but this cornfield was once a war plant...
Collect the Profits. The gun soon blasted out of its garage home, forced Nelson to incorporate as the Nelson Specialty Welding Equipment Corp. He borrowed $95,000 from RFC, put up a new plant in a San Leandro cornfield. Soon he was supplying guns to 120 shipyards...
...Grauman took a show on tour to Los Angeles, stayed there. In no time he had opened Grauman's Million Dollar Theater, the largest and most lavish Cinemansion of its day. Then he bought a Hollywood cornfield and built Grauman's Egyptian, a bewilderingly garish "architectural crazy house." So successful were its showings that in the first few years it ran only eight pictures. In 1927 came Grauman's Chinese, his masterpiece in Hollywood rococo...
...From the cornfield constituency of self-styled "country boy" Alf Landon to the Capitol Hill offices of smooth politician Joe Martin, the anguished cry went up: "Power-mad bureaucrats." "Bossism." "No milk for Hottentots." All the threadbare, empty rhetoric, spouted in the name of the "American Way" by the same coterie who have, at the price of disunity, taken the public by its ears and dragged it away from the cesspool of a global war to get a whiff of the Administration's "sewer of bureaucracy." Visions of the 1944 election are crowding the nation's war and peace problems...