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Maurice Goldblatt is a brash, unpolished little man who dedicated himself at an early age to a relentless pursuit of wealth. He made a pile. In the process, he became one of the ranking merchant princes of Chicago's famed State Street...
Maurice Goldblatt went down to the Midway to see what new facilities were needed. At first, he and the scientists found each other mutually forbidding. The fast-talking little (5 ft. 4 in.) merchant used business lingo and bad grammar. (Once, when a woman innocently asked Goldblatt if he spoke French, he replied: "Lady, I don't even speak English.") What the scientists said seemed like Greek to Goldblatt, until he told them to "write it down and draw pictures." Eventually he learned that they wanted a new research hospital (cost: $1,600,000), a cyclotron...
When the old man ran out of money, the Beautiful Daughter married the Promising Young Man. But all she wanted was Success, while he sought Virtue. So she heartlessly cast him aside and married a rich merchant in another city. Some 20 years later, when she came back to live in the beastly old castle, Virtue triumphed-by thwarting the Beautiful Daughter (now a beastly old woman) in her design to wreck her own son's happiness...
...Morison shows how close Nazi Admiral Doenitz came to wiping out the supply line from the U.S. to Britain. In the first 6½ months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy sank just eight subs (the Germans were building that many every ten days); the subs sank 360 merchant ships...
...leaders requested an immediate shipment of 100,000 Nipponese Bibles, and now 500,000 New Testaments and 400,000 Gospel portions have been sent through American contributions. One World, One Book--this is the philosophy of the Society. They see the dream of world brotherhood grow real as the merchant in Thailand, the German student, the Arabian shiek, and the African Zulu sit down simultaneously to read the words of Luke, ii, 14: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will towards...