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...naturally at a standstill, even U.S. postwar isolationists now believe that some such plan is a key to postwar prosperity and continued peace. As in the case of the Beveridge Plan for social security, Britain has laid down the first proposal. And again Britain drew on her top-drawer talent. Economist Keynes first made his reputation in 1920 with his devastating criticism of the Versailles Treaty-The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Since then his pioneering work on the theory of employment has widely influenced U.S. economists, New Deal and conservative alike...
...tons, about 15% of total U.S. output. Punctually enough, New Jersey Zinc last week issued its terse earnings report, showed 1942 profits down 25% to $7,231,000. But as usual the company gave no explanation of the decline, no estimate of the future. And when a top-drawer official was asked if the Palmer estate intended to sell its stock, an evasive answer slurred back: "Really...
...White House to plan a tremendous expansion in worldwide air routes, try to iron out some of the grave questions which have U.S. airline operators in a tailspin. Besides President Roosevelt the conferees included members of the Pacific War Council (with tall, gaunt Lord Halifax representing Britain), top-drawer officials from the State Department and the Army-Navy air-cargo divisions, a handful of U.S. airline operators, headed by smart, suave Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe...
This was an old pattern: last September the farm bloc came perilously close to forcing through Congress an inflationary bill that would have handed a few top-drawer farmers billions of dollars at the consumers' expense...
...described: "First, put the program on the desk so that the title of the play and the names of the actors can be accurately copied. Then lay out a box of matches, light a pipe, take a pad of yellow paper and a dozen sharply pointed pencils from a drawer. . . . What will the first line be? That is the crucial factor in the whole night's work. It is the entrance into the story. . . . Praise God from whom first sentences flow...