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...doubted that pitching would cinch the league championship. How it stacked up in quality against prewar slug ging would get a test in the last two-thirds of the season. The tester: big Hank Greenberg, who led the 1940 hitting pa rade with 41 homers, pocketed his Army discharge last week and planned to give Detroit a hitting as well as a pitching punch...
...came to the jail where Karolyi had imprisoned Communist Bela Kun. In his cell, Kun was informed that Karolyi had quit, that Kun was free to set up a soviet republic in Hungary. Said Bela Kun later: "All night I could not get it out of my head-es ging zu glatt, es ging zu glatt-it went too smoothly." The 133-day Red Terror that followed gave Hungarians a psychic shock which laid them wide open to the blandishments of Germany...
...squeeze on spinners finally got so bad that Army & Navy orders went beg ging for bids. Last week OPA knuckled under, let the Army pay 6% more for combed yarns. This had a reverse result: spinners then paid no attention to civilian orders, where there were no price concessions. At week's end there was only one way out - if Congress would stand for it: U.S. Government subsidies. Meanwhile lower civilian production will continue...
Sample platitudes and homely phrases: "To essay too much at once may, by arousing opposition, imperil the plan." "In stead of applying the principle of self-education there has been too much drag ging of youth over the ground in perambulators and wondering why their running does not improve," An epigram Dr. Lowell borrows may be borrowed also by un friendly biographers as his epitaph: "We pride ourselves on being a practical people - which Disraeli somewhere described as men who practice the errors of their ancestors...
...when conducting my log ging operations in northern Minnesota, I was 200 mi. from the point on Rainy River where International Falls, Minn, and Fort Frances, Ontario are now situated. . . . It was midwinter and a blanket of snow three feet deep made travel difficult. There were no roads. Accompanied by my head timber cruiser we covered the distance on foot and finally arrived at the Hudson Trading Post, one beautiful moonlight night after midnight with the thermometer at -40°. I viewed the wonderful water falls there and decided to become a real pioneer. The outcome was the building...