Word: graving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live up to their contracts. They had no morals. "I am exceedingly sorry for that, because the Russian people are a great people. If the Russian people had a voice in the government of Russia, I am sure that we would have no trouble." Then, in a grave but still casual manner, the President added...
...much attention to the works of nature. But not always. Last week the Boston Herald heaved an editorial sigh for the wintry seashore where "the moving sands swirl up the dunes and out gullied chimney tops . . . This is the time of smoking dunes." On its good, grave editorial page, the New York Times took note of winter: "Stand by ocean's edge and you can see, feel, hear and smell the grey waters. This is the darkening interlude when the sea changes its hue and forecasts winter . . . snow." And the silk-hatted Wall Street Journal stuck a straw...
There was more to the argument over high profits than that. To step up production to meet the gargantuan demand, industry had expanded its plants to the tune of $18.7 billion during the year. Much of the expansion had been bought with profits and reserves, because there was a grave shortage of risk capital to finance it. As Jersey Standard's Gene Holman said: "Without our high profits we couldn't have expanded the way we did." The oil industry, which had rolled up the "biggest profits of any industry ($2 billion), was a classic example...
...Paneled Room. Under the nose of the U.N.'s Good Offices Committee, which had been trying to negotiate a settlement, Stikker broke off the parley and took his team back to The Hague. There, in an oak-paneled room of the Ministry of Justice, the cabinet held many grave and sharply divided sessions. A royal decree was promulgated, setting up a provisional Indonesian federation which did not include the republic. Everyone knew that the decree could not be enforced without military action. The Socialists were opposed to fighting (the royal family was said to be against it also...
...which he returned was celebrating the Jazz Age; and drinking bootleg gin. Chambers' brother Richard, to whom he was deeply attached, committed suicide. He visited Richard's grave one winter day and found it covered with ice. He wrote: "The cold earth holds him round, a sheet of ice is over his face. My brother has no more the cold rain to face...