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...these publicity shenanigans grate on many a conservative industrial engineer. But recently Mayphobes had reason to chortle at two May prattfalls: 1) the Arkansas Utilities Commission, which hired the May Co. to make a survey to help develop postwar industries, angrily called the preliminary May survey a valueless rehash of what it already knew; 2) with his usual fanfare, May made a free survey for WPB on "What is holding up production?" Last week he announced that WPB was acting on his report. WPB-sters said it was promptly pigeonholed...
...have relatives at the front in this war. I want them backed up and "generaled" a whole lot better than the present regime has done. So for Senator I wanted a young man who would jab the coals, shake the grate, open the draught and get the fires of action to roaring in this war. Mr. Norris, over 80 and always talking about retiring, didn't seem to be that man. We are proud of his record, but this is a new fight...
British historians, who have lately begun to write more books about the U.S., still grate on U.S. ears. Typical excerpt (from a discussion of the Declaration of Independence by Historian C. F. Strong in The Story of the American People): "Some of these postulates, far from being self-evident, are not even truths, and it is now generally admitted by American historians that the philosophy of the Declaration is dubious, and most of the grievances hardly fundamental...
...self-educated boss of the Trade Union movement, and Minister of Labor is a strong man. . . . All three are forceful, tireless, fearless, arrogant, patriotic and stubborn." "And now," wrote Beaver's 19th Century Baxter, "as the guns won't stop, I shall. The fire in the grate has gone to sleep, which seems an excellent idea...
...numbers 2,500 and these professional fire fighters were generous last week in praise of the unprofessional A. F. S., who number over 25,000 men and 5,000 women. "When you consider that most of these fellows have never been near a bigger fire than their sitting-room grate, they are a miracle," boomed a Brigade officer. "Our men are hardbitten, experienced fighters and they trust the A. F. S. boys to the hilt...