Word: cornucopias
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...venture reap the profits for which it was designed. Japanese island forts like Truk must be cleaned out, all we have lost must be regained, and a method of defeating the Nipponese must be devised. The Russians and Chinese must benefit from a flow of supplies from the American cornucopia. In the nation, "black markets," devastating crimps in production, and on a more lasting scale the uisheartening defeats of democracy like the recent Southern filibuster over the poll tax bill show than there is still a long road to travel...
...days of profusion were over. No longer would the U.S. be a cornucopia land with store counters piled high with merchandise, its storehouses bulging, its salesmen struggling for a share of the consumer's dollar. Not again, till the Axis was beaten, could the U.S. citizen buy anything & everything for which he had the money or credit...
Last week that problem had not yet arisen. Like a cornucopia with a conscience, the U. S. prepared to pour out aid to the victims of war. But never before had U. S. relief had to cope with lightning war. Before a relief fund was raised and a relief ship chartered, the country for which the help was destined might be wiped off the map, the very port to which a relief ship was sent might be in ruins or out-of-bounds in a war zone...
...famed Hollywood Bowl summer concerts are the regular winter programs of Los Angeles' 20-year-old Philharmonic Orchestra. Golden Age of the Los Angeles Philharmonic was between 1919 and 1933, when the late copper tycoon William Andrews Clark Jr. lost $250,000 a year on it. When the cornucopia stopped flowing at Clark's death five years ago, a group of conservative Los Angeles socialites managed to keep his orchestra alive, but gave it less lavish rations. Proud were they of getting as permanent conductor world-famed Otto Klemperer. While the plump palms of Los Angeles' highty...
...posing for photographs in an artist's smock and beret. Sculptor Bufano made a scornful sketch of Sculptor Pegler's statue. Finally completed last week and cast in plaster, Pegler's model was shipped to San Francisco. It was called "Mrs. George Spelvin" and included a cornucopia, a gear wheel and an unexplainable mouse...