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...Like most gigantic projects of State planning-like Russia's White Sea Canal, Germany's Strength Through Joy automobile factories, France's Maginot Line-it was the kind of Big Job that made a strong appeal to the imagination. The thought of warships abuilding on sheltered inland seas, of ocean-going freighters plowing to the docks of Detroit, appealed to many a hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with Canada that it would involve, the impact...
...world's civilizations have invariably flourished beside the water: on the Nile, the Tigris & Euphrates, the Yellow River; on the Mediterranean; and, since Great Britain rose to power, across the waterways of the world. Invariably these civilizations have been challenged by inland hordes. Often they have fought off their challengers; often they have been overthrown; but invariably civilization has returned to the world by way of the water...
...third fortress, Suez, was secure so long as British sea power held the eastern Mediterranean, so long as Italy was stalled in Egypt, so long as Russia kept Germany out of the Near East via Turkey. The Russians, another inland horde, were choosing not to help their rival horde, were biding the time (maybe many years hence) when they would be the challenging power...
Throughout the '305, profit-per-ton leadership shuttled back & forth between Chicago's Inland Steel and Pittsburgh's National Steel, spry mass-producers of flat steels. During those years, steel fans assumed that when the industry got back to 90% operations, profit-per-ton leadership would be captured by U. S. Steel and Bethlehem. Reason: each derives great leverage from its heavy (structural) steel capacity, cleans up when this last, higher-profit margin of its capacity goes to work. Last week U. S.'s and Bethlehem's leverage departments were at full blast, and their...
...tally sheets his statistical election picture quickly took shape. Willkie's strength was inland, in the breadbasket States. Wherever land touched sea, Roosevelt was strong. The New England vote was a triumph for him: Maine went Republican only narrowly, and the President's vote in New England was even larger than...