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...turns out all the paper's inside editorials, writes the front-page Views of the News column, does three 15-minute radio broadcasts a week. He still has time to grow so many camellias at his Pasadena ranch that he has become No. 1 U.S. commercial camellia grower...
Senator Harry Byrd, the apple-cheeked Virginia apple grower who has staked his political future on his reputation as a pinchfist, last week unloosed a new array of figures. Congress has appropriated and authorized $205 billions for war. Of this incomprehensible vastness, about $163 billions have not been spent. At the present spending rate ($4,494,000,000 in July), the fallow $163 billions will take two years to spend. His point: Congress stands to lose control of spending, because the unspent balances amount to blanket appropriations; taking into account taxes, war appropriations and non-defense spending, it is inevitable...
...cotton grower is Oscar Johnston, whose 50,000 acres of rich Delta soil got him $363,000 of Government benefit payments in four years. Last month Oscar Johnston was appointed special representative of CCC as a cotton idea-man. He had planned to go to South America to close the Peruvian deal; but Peru sent two able representatives* to the U.S., who signed with Claude Wickard in short order. So Oscar stayed in Washington and meditated on cotton's war and post-war worlds...
...happened to know that he was a dahlia enthusiast and grew many show blooms. Being only an amateur dahlia grower . . . and having learned how ... to beg of those more fortunate a few of their dahlia roots that they are sure not to plant, I wrote the Secretary, admitting my poor financial standing and profoundly and sincerely begged for some...
Crimea is no Crete. It is three times as big as Crete. It is a peninsula, not an island. It is a center of trade, the linchpin of a whole sea, not just an olive grower's paradise. It boasts a great naval base, not just a great, bare bay. It has several bristling military airports, not just four improvised plane-patches. Its fortifications have been planned for years, not mere days...