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...less, prescience than other men. Four months before Pearl Harbor, he voted against an extension of the draft; two months later, he voted against a second lend-lease appropriation (as he had voted against the original lend-lease proposal); a month before Pearl Harbor, he voted against arming U.S. merchant ships; on Dec. 6, 1941, he demanded to know why a force of 2,000,000 men was justified. In that force, actually multiplied sixfold, Taft's four sons were to serve throughout...
...Alexandria, a band struck up the national anthem, and Egypt's flag was hoisted to the mast of a spick & span ocean liner, the 15,000-ton Gumhuriyat Misr ("Republic of Egypt"). There to welcome the British-built vessel, along with her sister ship Mecca, to the Egyptian merchant fleet was President Mohammed Naguib. Gesturing to a dark and dapper man in a checked tropical worsted suit and red tarboosh, Naguib paid Egypt's thanks to Ahmed Abboud, "that great and capable man who has rendered so many services to his country in the economic field...
...Merchant Marine...
...marquis' $25 investment turned into one of the most profitable in the history of art. His Rembrandt brought $100,000 from a wealthy Glasgow merchant, whose widow later presented the painting to Britain's Fairbridge Society, which sends underprivileged children to its farms in Australia...
...quarter, a softspoken, churchgoing G.I. turns up at the Ferrers' home to repair some V-bomb damage, and Mr. Britain-to-be becomes Mr. Also Ran. Since the American boy proves to be the son and heir of a well-heeled Colorado dry-goods merchant, lucky Linda not only flies off to the U.S. at novel's end, but also slips the narrow class bonds that made her content, at novel's start, to read her future in a humble plate of fish & chips...