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...Heaman hailed the new trays as "coming nearer to china" than the plastic mess trays recently used or the metal ones from right after the war. He defended the shallowness of the trays, saying that regular china also lacked depth...
Under able Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer, employment is up, luxury taxes are stiffer. As economic inequality tends to diminish, a feeling of opportunity grows. On the streets, fewer Germans glare enviously at expensive automobiles; cheap Volkswagens, Opels and Fords are nearer the public's reach. Already, more Germans own cars than in 1936. In Bad Godesberg, a German mason carped at the new apartment houses for U.S. officials: "I wish we were that well off." Promptly two of his colleagues chipped in: "Don't worry. We will...
...idea of universalism and sailed it back. Could he accept "the Herculean forms of a prizefighter that Michelangelo gave God in the Sistine Chapel...the fat Flemish women Rubens painted as Virgins?" Heras, who teaches at St. Xavier's College, Bombay, thought some of the Indian types were "nearer to the Judean type of Jesus and the Holy Family than our classic figures...
...Iranian fuse was sputtering nearer & nearer to the powder...
...starts to 800,000, but builders cried that they might well fall below 700,000, and predicted imminent unemployment in the building trades. Even steelmen caught the contagion, began worrying about a possible glut of steel. Said U.S. Steel's President Benjamin F. Fairless: "That period may be nearer than most people think...