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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to display them on employee bulletin boards; from schools, colleges, art teachers, professors of history, journalism, advertising, marketing, etc., for use in classrooms; from business men and others who wanted to pass them on to friends.* The Canadian Association of Advertising Agencies has also asked (and been given) permission to reprint the series in Canada...
...been given time to do a gradual job, there was not much doubt that the Navy could have melted away $353 million in fat without nicking the muscle. But by demanding the cutback immediately, Johnson had forced the Navy to chop away at the only big target in sight. As a result, Louis Johnson's big plans for economy were beginning to look more like a blueprint for disarmament. Wrote Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop last week: "Wartime control of the Mediterranean has probably now been cast away . . . The security of the United States and the safety...
...granting patents, and against foreign competition by levying tariffs. It won other votes by handouts: land to farmers as free homesteads, Treasury funds to Union soldiers as pensions. It won election after election. "What could you do with a party that had emancipated the slave, saved the Union, given everybody a bounty in land or tariff, assured businessmen of prosperity and poor men of a full dinner pail...
...year ago Mrs. John T. McCullough was occupied mostly in being a Greenwich, Conn. housewife, bringing up her eight-year-old son, raising Boxer dogs, and when she had time, listening to good music. She subscribed, in fact, to a three-concert winter series to be given by the Greenwich Community Concert Association...
...menus may differ from other Houses' on a given night, Reynolds says, but the food is the same, cooked in similar cauldrons, albeit in a different kitchen. The same shiny serving tables are used, and the same forks and knives; the same celery stands at the end of the line...