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...future, workers were promised a 48-hour week, abolition of child labor, equal pay standards for men & women, medical and health benefits. Youths 18 to 20 would serve on forest and soil conservation projects. There would be Govern ment supervision of schools, and Confesor hoped that within 25 years illiteracy (reduced from approximately 90% to 51% since the U.S. took possession in 1899) could be eliminated. Water and land transportation would be socialized, and large retail cooperatives established...
...Dodgson loved romance - but all he did about it was write a sad little satire about a young man who, on seeing a sign reading "Shop of Romance-ment," joyfully became an apprentice -only to find that the sign really read "Shop of Roman Cement." He loved the theater - but when he met beautiful Actress Irene Vanbrugh he could think of nothing to talk about but the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. Of dazzling Actress Ellen Terry he made what was probably the most passionate declaration of his life: "I can imagine no more delightful occupation...
...Karl Fuzeler, 16, was a blond, hand some boy, a Nazi youth leader who made three trips through the U.S. lines with military information for the retreating Wehrmacht before he was caught. A U.S. Army court sentenced him to death; on review, the sentence was reduced to life imprison ment. When a U.S. correspondent saw Karl Fuzeler in his cell, he was quite will ing to admit that Germany had been beaten. But he had lost none of his belief in Hitler and Naziism, none of his conviction that Germans are superior to Americans, Britons, or Russians. The Allied armies...
...purchasers a share of the "profits." By 1943 the company was manufacturing insecticides and fertilizer as well as selling, and ended the year with gross sales of $13,111,753. With some of their own cash and substantial loans from local banks, they made a $4-million down pay ment on Westwood...
...would have no silk ; you cannot tell when it is clean." Boswell asked if he might have a job in this strange establish ment. "Yes, sir," roared the doctor. "Properly dressed you would, make a splendid eunuch." Often he took whatever side of an argument promised the most fireworks. When fashionable friends philosophized on the virtues of poverty, Johnson flew into a Tory rage. When someone suggested that poor criminals were better off in not having to suffer the ignominy of public executions, he flared up on the other side: "No, sir, executions are intended to draw spectators...