Word: erful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Roosevelt, in variety from John Calhoun to Phineas Barnum. Also included are a brief exposition of their ideas or of the aspect of American life they represented, good quotations from their works and a wandering argument that appears and disappears through the pages like the ne'er-do-well son of an old Southern family returning home for a visit...
Then a change came o'er the spirit of his dream, and made itself felt in his speeches. From confidently predicting Axis victory he fell to talking gloomily of a six-or seven-year war to the death, then (last May) to calling for peace. The invasion and cleanup of Africa gave Spain a close and eye-popping demonstration of Allied power. On Oct. 1, speaking before the Falange, he omitted the ringing Spanish phrase for "nonbelligerency," used in its place a calm, almost Swiss formula: "vigilant neutrality...
...strait jacket, but he was soon laced in tighter than ever by the rough & tumble Brewster union. He had no time to untangle the materials mess Result: Brewster failed in production on the Navy's Corsair fighter, although production of the so-so Brewster dive-bomb er picked up. In August, month of Brewster's latest strike, not a Corsair was delivered...
...fits OPA definitions. He can : 1) drop his low-priced lines and concentrate on the higher ones; or 2) if he has no higher ones, he can go out of business on his old lines, open up as a new company the next day. So can any shoestring retail er. The department or specialty store with many price lines is also unaffected : it can just drop the unprofitable low ones...
...concensus following Thursday's smoker seemed to be that no matter how humble, there is nothing like home talent. Everybody was just crazy about J. Peter (Rosita Royce) Schaeffer and "her" Harvard Yard pigeon whose placid, fluffy beauty was brought in alive to flutter around during the er-a-dance. Rosita's statuesque loveliness captured the "imagination" of the Dog Baker-weary multitude no end, and Lt. (jg) P. L. Geibel, the tactics man, was besieged with requests for new instructions on solving the gm line. At about that time, however, the capacitance was about to overflow its square root...