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...almost pitifully humorous to watch the frantic manoeuvers of the New England textile owners to stem the tide which is carrying the cotton manufacturing business elsewhere. In their mad fury they hurl insults at Wallace, pile imprecations on the Administration, indeed, almost blame Providence itself because New England has ceased to be able to complete with the rising industry of the South...
Last year Congress granted the Securities & Exchange Commission the power to hurl thunderbolts into almost any corporation it saw fit. Instead of exercising such an Olympian prerogative, as U. S. Business fearfully predicted, SEC has proved to be a tolerant and forbearing body. Last week for the first time SEC thundered in august wrath. Object: Baldwin Locomotive Works...
...duration of the war, it glowered from the bow of this cruiser, ever ready to hurl six pound shells at a Spanish invader. Only once, however, did the "Harvard's" commander believe he saw an enemy ship; and then his manoeuvres were such that only armament stationed in the stern could have been effective...
...success in war, directly or indirectly; and there seems more idealism than logic in the attitude of those who would shun he making of bombs or shells or hand grenades while approving the production of the motor cars or ships or cloth or food, which enable an army to hurl bombs and shells and grenades...
Thirty thousand gallons of airplane gasoline meanwhile arrived in Italian Somaliland, ready to power the bombers that Il Duce and Il Re may hurl against Abyssinia's Emperor Power of Trinity, who is the Conquering Lion of Judah and the Elect of God to over 5,000,000 Negroids...