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...here & there, in back pages of the newspapers, little items said eloquently that the U.S. was still the U.S. In Colorado a 16-year-old lad braved frozen hands and feet to help haul a toboggan eight miles through snowdrifts on an 8,000-ft. mountain, rescue a pneumonia-stricken rancher. A lad crippled by two bone operations, tuberculosis of the hip, pneumonia, ptomaine poisoning, appendicitis, graduated at the head of his Manhattan high-school class...
...this policy is continued, a little prosperity now will help the railroads both to fight the war and win the peace. For war, they need a healthy cash account; they must stand ready to haul troops and war materials in unscheduled rushes, which is expensive. And if they are to survive the peace, the roads must be flush enough to buy equipment- new,streamlined, experimental, costly-with which to compete in a world full of freight and passenger planes...
Though Congress needed no encouraging yoicks, the press joined in with rousing view halloos. The usually mild-mannered Columnist Raymond Clapper set the pace. Said he: "Half the trouble around [OCD] could be got rid of if the President would haul [Mrs. Roosevelt] out of the place . . . There is hesitation in Congress about saying much because nobody wants to criticize the wife of the President. But this is public business and very important public business. ... It is incredible that President Roosevelt will allow this situation to continue much longer. It has become a public scandal. How can you have...
...ships such a saving may be doubly important, for they must not only buy but haul their fuel. Cargo capacity of merchant ships, cruising range of warships can be upped by a 25 to 40% economy of fuel. (A mercury-powered ship was planned in 1938 by Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., then postponed until mercury's problems were overcome...
...such methods Edmonds has secured a following of some 250,000 devoted readers ; a successful Marc Connelly dramatization of Rome Haul (The Farmer Takes a Wife, with Henry Fonda); three Henry Fonda movies (The Farmer Takes a Wife, Chad Hanna, Drums Along the Mohawk). Young Ames, too, looks as if he might some day find himself metamorphosed into Young Fonda. Author Edmonds hopes not. He is worried about the recurrence of Fonda in cinematizations of Edmonds books. "One more," says he, "might make him think he had written them...