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...bringing home from French soil the remains of 60,501 U.S. soldiers who died defending France in two wars, demanding that France repay more than $4 billion in World War I debts (which France and other European debtors except Finland ceased paying in 1932), swamping France's lucrative grain-export markets with American wheat, or putting a tax on American tourists to France. These are the kind of ideas that sound attractive-until one remembers that France, too, has great retaliatory powers, because it buys more from the U.S. than it sells...
...some questions that cast doubt on the amount of research done by your writer. You claim the farm to be the home "of the nation's most coddled minority"-coddled by whom? Certainly not by the U.S. Department of Agriculture whose planning and continual changing of the Feed Grain Program has brought the price of corn down again this year. You blame rising food prices on Government subsidies-how about the fact that the U.S. housewife today wants her food completely prepared for her before she buys it, does not this add considerably to the cost of food...
...leave!" Later, he started like a string of Chinese firecrackers: "Hello, folks, this is Bob Pepsodent Hope." Pow, pow, pow-joke, joke, joke. And a lot of them were dogs, dogs, dogs. Some friends "had a very exclusive wedding," went one. "They threw a Chinaman with every grain of rice." Or: "I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that we're broadcasting from NBC's new Hollywood studios ... a big beautiful building. They tell me it cost more than Mrs. Roosevelt's annual train fee." And the one about the excessive gadgetry in the new cars...
...their path. The shrieking refugees still inside their houses were incinerated. Many of those who had had time to get down into dogholes beneath the houses were asphyxiated. Spraying fire about in great whooshing arcs, the Viet Cong set everything afire: trees, fences, gardens, chickens, the careful piles of grain from the annual harvest. Huts that somehow survived the fiery holocaust were leveled with grenades. Then the hoses of fire were sprayed down inside the exposed burrows. Later, the Communists incinerated a patch of the main town just for good measure...
...museum's contradictions lies in the temperaments of the two Walters. Father William, a Yank with Confederate sympathies, made his millions in grain, whisky and railroads, then "holidayed" in France from 1861 to 1865, buying French landscapes and commissioning Daumier to do a series of the first, second-and third-class railway carriages. The son Henry, who loathed publicity and personally scissored the price from every bill of sale, doubled his patrimony and spent over $1,000,000 annually...