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House building could stand a boost. Private home building in August slumped to $920 million, one-third under the same month last year; the dollar volume of private commercial building dropped 6%, while industrial building doubled. With easier credit, builders who have been predicting dire troubles for the industry now expect to put up 850,000 houses this year, the goal of the Government all along...
...Dire Consequences." Amid such signs that the head man's words were not going over, the assistant coaches began to exhort the team, too. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston cut short a press conference to catch a plane for New York, where, on a television program and on Mary Margaret McBride's radio show, he got in a few words for strong controls. Fred Vinson, stepping down from his traditionally aloof position of Chief Justice, warned that any relaxation of preparedness would have "dire consequences." Secretary of Defense George Marshall, Presidential Assistant W. Averell Harriman and others warned against...
...Bull Run, Colonel Sherman got his baptism of blood. The "sickening confusion [of] a field strewed with dead men and horses" affected him so sharply that he later warned Lincoln never to give him "a superior command." Nevertheless, the Union was in dire need of professional officers, and Lincoln gave him temporary command in Kentucky. Sherman was always an agitated smoker; his tobacco consumption kept pace, says Author Miers, with his expanding fears of responsibility. In a haze of smoke and anxiety, he ordered his "insane" countermarch from Cumberland...
...said the studio visitor, emotionally pressing Ed Sullivan's hand. "It takes a real man to get up there week after week-with that silver plate in your head." So many other televiewers have warmly congratulated him for his triumph over facial paralysis, twisted spine and other dire but imaginary ills, that Sullivan has just about given up protesting that he is and always has been sound of wind and limb...
Despite these misgivings, parallel groups in the two colleges have combined in almost everything but name, and none of those dire predictions have been realized. Political groups, drama groups, and language groups, to name a few, have all cooperated closely for many years. The only effect the current rules have is merely to inconvenience student organizations, confuse their authority, force them to figure out separate charters and to elect separate officers. Whatever purpose the authorities had in mind for these restrictions have long since been lost in the muddle; only the inconveniences remain...