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Prospective tycoons will find the CRIMSON a successful business concern, confronted with the manifold problems involved in conducting such an organization. Aspiring magnates will learn how these problems are met, as well as practicing the fine points of selling, and developing valuable self-assurance...
Worse Plight. Reasons for the erratic performance of the Army's demobilization machine were manifold. Spurred by public and Congress, disturbed by the outcries of G.I.s, the Army had demobilized faster than it had wanted to. Neither Selective Service nor enlistments had supplied men fast enough to fill the holes...
...Lively Invalid. Recent Russian propaganda pictures have begun to show the Generalissimo's grey hair. In any event, a redistribution of Stalin's manifold functions may soon be in order. Even the man of steel might want a rest now that the war emergency was past. In Potsdam photographs, his familiar figure looked out of place next to homey President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee...
...salary did not go very far. When a $12,500-a-year job on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia opened up in 1938, he took it. He left it,, five years later, to succeed his longtime friend Jimmy Byrnes as Economic Stabilizer. There his manifold duties were aimed at holding the line against inflation. By & large, he did. He also got feuding war agencies to reconcile their differences. Once, when OPA and WFA were in conflict, he remarked mildly: "Oh, if they don't come to an agreement I will." The mildness, to those...
...than 1,400,000 French buildings have been destroyed. At least 600 communities, little ones like Le Bosquel and big ones like Le Havre and Brest, must be rebuilt. Ports, railways and roads have first priority. A nation struggling with hunger, lack of transport, shortages of every kind, the manifold readjustments of liberation, can move only slowly to remove the scars of destruction. But it can plan...