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...struck. Down to the engine room flashed the signal: FULL SPEED ASTERN. Four propellers, each as big as a bungalow, churned the chocolate-colored water to froth. It was too late. Bow and stern, the 80,773-ton ship was aground. Her own engines were useless...
Doubly interesting is your cut of the Venus of I'rhino [TIME, May 27], since it once caused Mark Twain to froth and seethe...
...been little change in either the direction or velocity of the various business currents which afford a cross-sectional view of he recovery movement to date. Characteristic of the past several weeks, certain sections of industry readily respond to the continued lavish flow of Federal funds like the froth on a pitcher of near beer which fails, however, to have any real exhilirating effect. Until the heavy industries react in convincing fashion, which can only come from renewed business confidence, government spending will only produce evanescent results...
...several times each week in an effort to find out just how much money the world spends on armaments. So pleasant did they find each other's company that one weekly meeting was converted into a Beer Club. Last week they published their report and sadly blew the froth off a final meeting. Seventeen months of effort could produce no authoritative figures later than 1931, when the world spent about $6,000,000,000 for guns, warships, tanks, poison gas, airplanes, bombs and bullets of every variety. And even for that year many small nations would submit no complete...
...these people at a Second Empire hotel is broader and deeper than his manner would indicate. "Tender is the Night" gives the uneasy impression of being a potboiler as Compton MacKenzie's Italian and detective stories give it; for just as Mr. MacKenzie cannot keep out of his froth, phrased as froth, some of his more sober merit, Mr. Fitzgerald gives us disturbing glimpses of a kind of writing different from any that he has ever done. Mr. MacKenzie does the other kind, often; perhaps Mr. Fitzgerald will do it some day, also...