Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard cannot claim sainthood in the matter of tolerance, but it is interesting to compare the recent Eisler episode--or rather the lack of an "episode"--with instances of egg-throwing and organized hectoring by self-appointed student vigilantes that have dogged "free institutions of learning" throughout the country. The College itself had a disagreeable taste of this last year in the case of the anti-draft meeting in Sanders Theater. That was something most undergraduates were sorry about. The orderly attention to Gerhart Eisler Monday night, on the other hand, was something to be a little proud...
Stranded and broke in Paris after World War I, Bernhard got his first newspaper job on the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, after a period as a tourist guide. Later he was city editor of the Detroit Free Press, moved on to become managing editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, and five years ago went to Pittsburgh. Since then, the P-G has picked up 50,000 in circulation to hit a top of 300,000, has handily held its position as Pittsburgh's biggest daily. For his Sunday paper, Andy Bernhard has already signed up a new staff...
...wheat crop off the market, by loans and purchases under its support plan. It expected to have to do the same with as much as 600 million bushels of corn-more than is normally sold commercially in a year. But with most storage space filled, a huge amount of "free grain" not encompassed by the support program had been thrown on the market. Cash corn had been driven as much as 40? below the support price, and wheat down to 20? below its support level...
Brannan and his commodity experts apparently hoped that the supply of free grain would soon be exhausted, and that grain prices would then hold steady. But that was only a hope. The supply of free wheat alone on Jan. 1 was 514 million bushels-more than the U.S. normally eats in a year. Barring drought, the U.S. would probably have another bumper wheat crop, which could run the carryover to 600 million bushels in 1950. And Argentina and Australia already had so much wheat that they were cutting export prices...
...sell. But Greene is obviously not at ease with the short story; it brings out his second-rate gift for contrivance and cramps his now clearly first-rate gift for dramatizing the lives of the weak-abandoned, as one of his characters puts it, "to the enormities of Free Will...