Word: dreamboats
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...Credit Administration and on the flush tide of farm-labor revolt against the evils of Wall Street. The pattern of war finance and the civilian economy show the revolt brought to its logical conclusion. The farm bloc ganged up with the labor bloc to smash Henry Morgenthau's dreamboat of a withholding tax. The farm bloc, ganging up with the Silver States, kept the absurd silver legislation on the books. And the farm bloc made hash of inflation control. Though wholesale prices during the year rose only by about 10%, farm prices skyrocketed...
...Dreamboat in Port. The new rich used their money to buy things that were once undreamed-of luxuries. They pushed jewelry sales to 26% above last year's: in Pensacola, Fla., a plasterer walked into a tony jewelry shop, counted out $100 for a diamond wrist watch; next day his wife returned with the watch and another $50 for a better...
...Washington, with anti-aircraft guns less defiladed by stacks and superstructure than any of her forebears, has a mighty slug in her guns, plenty of speed to dodge while the battle is on. Her successors will go farther still. But none will go so far as the dreamboat design put out by Industrial Stylist George W. Walker of Detroit. He went all the way, streamlined his ship like an airplane, put his main battery in mushroom turrets, massed bridge and stack into a bulletlike island alongside a launching deck for aircraft. It was another vision. But no man could reasonably...
Congressmen were inspired and frightened by the deluge of mail. Virginia's lean, soft-spoken Congressman Howard W. Smith, who has tried, tried, and tried again to club labor with legislation, came forward with his newest dreamboat: a bill to throw out all closed-shop contracts for the duration, wipe out all wage-hour agreements, overtime payments...
...remodeled carrier. Her four stacks could be moved to one side, her upper deck and superstructure torn away. The old crone would become a Valkyrie. Before summer's end, said the Navy, Navy flyers on the Great Lakes will get carrier training on the waddling old dreamboat...