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Thus in 518 A.D., the Chinese poet, Po Chui, expressed his alarm at the roaring Yangtze gorges in Central China, the bottleneck through which the waters of the 3,000-mile-Iong river pour out of the Szechwan basin and Tibetan foothills onto the flat paddies of China's rice bowl. Then as now, the enormous power of the Yangtze ran wild in floodtime while the Chinese shrugged ia resignation. Even now, damming the Yangtze is a bigger job than China can cope with...
...taking the bread from Swedish mouths. While Norwegians across the mountains starved and bled, Swedes worked by day and spent the cold nights in their own warm houses with their families. Per Albin could see his country's gratitude. Neutrality had been very much worth while, but how Iong could it last...
...Methods." Not Iong ago a civil servant who had just been transferred to the Ministry of Aircraft Production expressed the general complaint against the Ministry. "You'd hardly believe the appalling state of this office," said he. "The place is a complete chaos." Somebody asked: "Isn't the Beaver producing the planes?" "Oh, yes," said the complainant, "he's producing them all right. But, my dear fellow, the methods! They're dreadful...
...atop the first batch of Social Security applications, he became the first U. S. wage earner to be registered for a Government pension at 65. Said John David Sweeney Jr. when reporters and photographers found him in the bar of Manhattan's Princeton Club: "It's a Iong...
...Messrs. Willkie and McNinch which committed neither side to anything but further discussion, suggested that meantime TVA and Commonwealth & Southern might agree to extend their current nonaggression contract. Though doubts, reasonable in view of Franklin Roosevelt's longtime enmity to Private Power, were expressed as to how Iong past election day his conciliatory sentiments might last, at least a start had been made toward solution of a momentous problem...