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...solve the international Gordian knot...
...washed dock that day a knot of tanned, relaxed sailors waited, the bandsmen with their instruments all askew. As the black hull of a submarine appeared across the way they came to attention. The 20-piece band thumped into the Beer Barrel Polka...
Balding Winner Spangler made a double-jointed, fence-straddling statement. For the benefit of party progressives, he said: "... We haven't the same world, with the modern bomber, that we had in the days of the 30-knot battleship. You no longer can say that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are moats around America." For the benefit of party diehards: "My job is to build up an army of voters in the United States to defeat the New Deal, and I don't think there are any votes in China or Mongolia or Russia that...
...nearly half an hour the battle raged, two raiders against one freighter. Heavily outgunned, the merchantman made every shell count. Ensign Willett saw the stern of the smaller raider burst into flame. Then a shell blew up the merchantman's main boiler, reduced her speed to one knot. A few seconds later another shell hit the magazine...
...Honest Harold Ickes, the New Deal's grumpy grandpa, had escaped the manpower job which President Roosevelt wanted him to take (see p. 28). He was still firmly ensconced in his beloved Interior Department. Working in the sleeves of a horribly blue-striped shirt, he pulled the lumpy knot of his tie a little more crooked, and nearly smiled...