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...Beloved brethren: A little girl of our diocese, Pierrette Regimbal of Val D'Or, has for a few weeks past drawn upon her and retained the attention of the public. Thousands of persons . . . have lent a credulous ear to . . . strange reports on the child's pretensions. . . . People have cried 'miracle'. . . . Comparisons have gone so far as to compare the girl to Bernadette of Lourdes. . . . We esteem that [this] was, in truth, according her too great an honor...
...earthquake in 1906, he opened a new bank in a waterfront shed, expanded by lending to businessmen who had been wiped out. A pioneer in branch banking, he now has California blanketed with 491 Bank of America branches. He became Hollywood's banker, has so far lent the movie industry...
...outlook for European travel brightened last week. The American Express Co., which for 30 years has shepherded U.S. citizens in & out of the cities and art galleries of Europe, announced that it now has 17 European offices operating again. More important, the U.S. State Department lent a hand to U.S. businessmen, Paris-bound on business...
Knowing that some Americans would find these comparisons beside the point, British Ambassador Lord Halifax took another line. He said that Britain's 47 million people could not live unless they exported to pay for imports and they could not export in prewar quantities unless the U.S. lent them money for ships and machines. Without a loan, Britain would struggle along as best she could, trading within her own sterling area. Result: U.S. and world trade would suffer...
...products was the Radiation Laboratory at Cambridge, Mass. According to M.I.T.'s President Karl Compton, it was "the biggest research organization in the history of the world." Beginning in the fall of 1940, when the nation's top physicists began to gather in a few offices lent by M.I.T., the Laboratory quietly took over a milk plant, a shoe-polish factory, an airport. Eventually, it grew to a team of 3,800, including 700 physicists, twice as many as worked on the atomic bomb...