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...Traffic Jam. Harry Truman had entered office with the firm belief that government must, as far as possible, stay out of labor-management disputes. His failure lay in the fact that the people-their representatives, their unions and their industrialists-were not ready to resume their responsibilities. By going on the assumption that they were, he had weakened the authority and position of the presidency...
...conception of it, Americans were busy fawning upon any and every eminent European classical musician obtainable. But in his native Europe the bell-shaped opera sopranos, weirdly posturing conductors et al were, comparatively speaking, the honorless prophets, while the imported hot records from the New World and the American jam bands got the vivas, saluts, and heils. The European Parlophone company, with branches in almost every major country on the continent, still carries a large number of the old sizzlers like Louis' West End Blues and Luis Russel's Feelin' The Spirit, which had been out of print in this...
...that so? I know something that's better . . . spunk-water. . . . You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a spunk-water stump, and just as it's midnight you . . . jam your hand...
...terms of the gamble had long been set by law and custom: no seals, no pay. The risk is great. The rafting ice might shear off a rudder or propeller, or jam the ship so long it would miss the main patch of seals. But the adventure still thrills the hardy Newfoundland fishermen...
...family doctor trying to break the news gently, Prime Minister Clement Attlee rose to speak on this point in the House of Commons. He was sympathetic with his old patient; he knew the British people were hungry and tired. But he was firm: if there was to be jam tomorrow, there could be no jam today. There would not even be jam tomorrow unless they all, women and old men included, worked more today. The U.S. loan (if Congress approved it) would help to revive British trade, but it would not permit Britain "to relax, only to work...