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...raised was typical of the new headaches and responsibilities the U.S. had accepted along with the job of trying to bring peace and order into the world. It was true that everything the U.S. shipped to Russia-from electric locomotives to a can of tushonka (stew meat)-was potential grist for the Red Army. It was also true that the U.S., whether it was ready to go as far as economic sanctions or not, was counting on goods from Eastern Europe as a basic part of the Marshall Plan. The chance of sending goods to Russia for the sake...
Congressional leaders in fact consider the special session as little more than an early opening of the regular session, and as such a forum for Presidential aspirants. Any vote-getting issue will be grist for the mill. In such an atmosphere unpopular items like allocation or price control will be assiduously avoided. The President's program is likely to get lost in the rush...
...Norton Regional Planning chair. He gives the several centers of study in public administration their due but likes to feel that here "more than any other place . . . there is a genuine reflection in the student body of the different parts of the country." This is perfect grist for the mill of a man whose special approach to American government emphasizes the interplay of sectional differences. Gaus earries on his specific researches on civil service and the power-man conjunction within a frame of thinking that is almost a credo. The hall mark is distinguished service. But "politics" will win unless...
...Grist for Red Mill...
...whole wheat bread, she got two ancient, water-operated grist mills to grind the flour, stubbornly insisting that the gram had better flavor and nourishment when it was ground in that antiquated way. As she continued to expand, she added melba toast, pound cake, etc. to the Pepperidge line. But she was careful not to expand so fast that she could not finance it out of earnings. In all, she has had to borrow only $5,000 outside capital and has kept the company a family enterprise...