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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David Low sent me the following radiogram: ". . . Greetings to my fellow artists in the Society of Illustrators. Good wishes for success of their efforts towards rehabilitation of war veterans. Would say that we drawers of pictures have easiest means of communicating ideas, therefore we have direct educative responsibility in helping our two democracies to grow up in sympathy and friendship. We could make a start to better understanding by ... expressing the fundamental truth that in these days the common man of Britain and of America is pretty much the same .fellow with the same standards and the same wish...
...easiest and most optimistic method of gauging future trade with Russia is to assume repayment (on the basis of Russian resources and credit rating), then try to measure the Russians' needs. Viewing the ruined steel mills and coal mines of the Ukraine, the burned and blasted cities of White Russia, and the limitless Soviet confidence in Soviet destiny, some experts who use this method talk of U.S. exports of $5 billion a year for a few years, tapering down to $2 billion (see chart). Such a trade would amply justify the $7 billion credit, and more...
...liveliest and most informal dictionaries since Dr. Johnson's, it is also one of the easiest to read. It gives a vivid characterization of cowboys and their life...
...never intend to work as hard again as I have worked during these three years in the Army. During the easiest days of training the working day averaged better than ten hours and about the only way we could recognize Sunday was by the absence of our Catholic colleagues. My next job will have to allow time for private, personal thinking, talking, reading and writing...
...Earl of Halifax, Britain's gaunt, impenetrably gentlemanly Ambassador to the U.S., deftly parried a U.S. housewives' rumor that Britain has used Lend-Lease lipstick to prettify English girls for lonely G.I.s. Said Halifax: "Lipstick [is] the easiest and quickest way to mark on a war casualty's clothes what and where his wounds...