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...defense industry-steel-suffering from lack of raw material because committeemen delay . .. price authority and suitable penalties. . . . It may be that Mr. Henderson is not temperamentally the best man . . . but his honesty, patriotism and ruggedness are beyond question. . . . Price chaos in many industries is at [Congress'] doorstep...
...forceful high War Policy Board. There are innumerable agencies at the same level of authority. There is no integrated authority. There is no rational organization. There is no rational plan. Who, or what, is at fault? "The major responsibility for this state of affairs rests squarely on the doorstep of the President...
Pedaling serenely home from a 667-mile bicycle trip through Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, Federal Judge George A. Welsh wheeled up to his Lima, Pa. doorstep with news that men had heard before but hope always to hear again: "Whatever may be in store for us, you can count on the people. They will not fail...
...left on the Sawicki doorstep in Chicago when he was three days old. The Sawickis christened him Bernard. He soon got a different name for himself-Knifey. "Bernie has always been a bad boy," said Anna Sawicki. "I'm sorry I ever took him in-he'd be better off dead." Once he told his foster mother: "Don't ever put a hand on me, or I'll knock your teeth...
...half crown a bunch in Piccadilly, where the crowds window-shopped before late dinners or after big late teas in crowded Lyons' Corner Houses. Londoners were not liking the news from Libya and Greece, but were relaxing in the comfortable conviction that the war was receding from their doorstep...