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...their own safety. . . . If, however, we give the "secret" to an international control commission, we i) show the Russians (against whom, after all, this secrecy is being directed) that we are ready to trust them, i) give a strong impetus for success of the United Nations Organization, 3) furnish a strong moral persuader to other nations to follow our example in cosmopolitan behavior, and 4) lose nothing which we won't lose shortly in any event, if we haven't already done...
...conference opened, Harry Truman stood up before the delegates, a grave, grey man in a dark blue suit, and read gravely and greyly from his black looseleaf notebook: "[The eyes of the American people] are turned here in the expectation that you will furnish a broad and permanent foundation for industrial peace and progress. "Our country is worried about our industrial relations. It has a right to be. That worry is reflected in the halls of the Congress in the form of all kinds of proposed legislation. You have it in your power to stop that worry. I have supreme...
...thousand dollars were still left in the fund, and lumber and materials for a house (with electric lights and a bathroom) were on order. Powell's Furniture Store of Inman had promised to furnish the front room. The First Baptist Church of Landrum had donated a Bible, the Orange Crush Co. a mule, and other gifts were still coming in-an electric pump, fertilizer, pecan trees, dishes...
...truth is that our system of free enterprise cannot long endure on the 2% of capital (capital with a capital "C") furnished by the silk hat. To furnish full employment under our system of free enterprise there must continue to be invested in our mills and mines and factories the other 98% that has been hitherto so invested by those symbolized by the lunch...
Edema, dysentery, nephritis and pulmonary ailments packed the surviving hospitals. The T.B. rate was estimated at 22% of the population. Hospital patients were required to furnish their own bedding and food. There were no cotton bandages, few disinfectants...