Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calculated to boost prices. Henry Morgenthau Jr. was authorized to direct a $2,000,000,000 refinancing program to ease the burden of farm mortgagees through Farm Credit Administration. And during the month, FCA announced that its loans for crop production and harvesting had passed the $200,000,000 mark, of which $50,000,000 had been repaid. This machinery, taxed to capacity, was now to be extended still further. Into the White House marched Secretary Wallace and Agricultural Adjustment Administrator George Nelson Peek, who is to one-half the U. S. people what NRAdministrator Johnson is to the other...
...torpedo on its course, cannot swerve it to strike a ship whose captain has seen the white plume of the torpedo's compressed air wake and swerved his course to avoid the deadly charge. Last week the Imperial Japanese Navy, tired of wasting torpedoes which miss their mark and cost more than $5,000 each, sent out a quiet request for volunteers to man a new type of "human torpedo...
...Japan's next war, according to the Tokyo correspondent of the London Daily Herald which scored a beat on the story last week, Japanese torpedoes of the new type will each contain a volunteer. He will steer the torpedo intelligently to its mark and magnificently blow up with it "as did the Japanese human bomb at Shanghai...
...think of a letter, miss, and then you mark around...
...intellectual touch was an imaginary interview with Mark Hanna by Thomas Beer, making the point that Hanna would have thought present-day Capitalists were weaklings to go sniveling to the Government about their fortunes. In his day strong men "hunted fortunes as if they were bears. . . . We didn't whistle-and then whine to 'em. ... An individualism that squalls for protection from its own mistakes ain't even as respectable as one that bought votes and slugged its way into power with a gun in its hand...