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...quite simple: the killing is their business. Armaments are their stock in trade; governments are their customers; the ultimate consumers of their products are, historically, almost as often their compatriots as their enemies. That does not matter. The important point is that every time a burst shell fragment finds its way into the brain, the heart, or the intestines of a man in the front line, a great part of the $25,000, much of it profit, finds its way into the pocket of the armament maker...
...still not enough clarity for the plain reader. "The Red Front," by Louis Aragon, in the translation of e. e. cummings, is less eccentric than the selections from cummings' own "Eimi." T. S. Eliot is represented by the least intelligible of his poems, the first part of "Sweeny Agonistes: Fragment of an Aristophanic Melodrama...
...author has selected a fragment from the history of the beginnings of America and has made of it a ground upon which he creates an edifice compounded of the sufferings, victories and defeats of those early pioneers in the first days of industrialism in our country. This novel is the richly human story of a lone giant of the earth, George Rood, who wages a single-handed fight against a glass manufacturing enterprise which springs up across the road from his farm upon the discovery of natural gas in the vicinity...
...seems, a section of the permanent code which allows the president to license certain industries if "destructive wage or price cutting or other activities contrary to the policy of" NIRA should exist in them. Newspapers, sensing here a possible threat to journalistic freedom, demand that this offending fragment be struck out or amended in some way before their individual code is signed...
...observed that only five percent of the passengers make use of the receptacles provided for used tickets. . . . What we must do is raise the public standard of manners so that people will instinctively be tidy and no one will ever come away from a picnic without clearing up every fragment...