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...Central Europe are deteriorating rapidly. . . . Undoubtedly conditions are better in Holland, Denmark and Belgium, but they are still very difficult in France and are terrible in parts of Germany. Unless some means can be found whereby the New World, and countries that have supplies of food and clothing, can furnish those supplies to the people [who need them], there may be conditions of famine, of strife and of turmoil which will amount to ... revolution throughout Europe. I think I am not wrong...
Young Henry Ford II, quietly signing up a new team to help run his empire, last week found the quarterback. He hired Ernest Robert Breech, 49, president of Bendix Aviation Corp., as executive vice president and director, at a salary guesstimated at over $200,000. Breech will furnish what the company has needed-an overall coordinator second in command to Young Henry. A man who can shrewdly keep tabs on the complexities of costs, production and marketing, Ernie Breech is regarded as one of the ablest men in the auto and aviation industries...
...well-fed farmers and agents told Butch not to worry: the northwest would furnish wheat to feed 15,000,000 people. "This is all inspiring," yelled Butch. "For the past few weeks I've been looking at charts and diagrams and figures. If I could solidify all the stuff I've seen lately from these statisticians I'd have enough fertilizer to take care of the fields of the nation for the next ten years...
Thanks to a convenient piece of Irish magic, Katie spends the rest of the book making wraithlike appearances (while the real Katie sleeps) on practically every vessel in the U.S. Fleet, seeking Johnny Smith. Author White makes the most of this opportunity to furnish knowledgeable vignettes of Navy life and talk...
...From the Russian frontier to the Channel, there are today 20 millions of children . . . badly undernourished . . . steadily developing tuberculosis, rickets, anemia and other diseases of subnormal feeding. Unless they are better fed many will die and others . . . will furnish more malevolents. . . . The responsibility rests heavily upon the world...