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When he turned to the charges made by the majority against the chairman, Directors Morgan and Lilienthal also did all the talking, Chairman Morgan none. But highly documented though these were with magazine articles, letters, telegrams and interoffice memoranda which the President judicially accepted as "exhibits," they sounded less like the beginning of a Teapot Dome than like the charges in a divorce suit. Samples: that Chairman Morgan, in an Atlantic Monthly article on public power programs, had "impugned the integrity of the Tennessee Valley Authority," that he had consulted with a former private utility executive, onetime Vice President George...
...There is in France none of that penury and want and none of that forced labor which is to be found under the surface of the totalitarian countries. There are very few people in France who do not eat and drink well. There are still very few who do not manage to live within their incomes and save something...
...face of this new mystery, doctors tried every kind of treatment that offered faint promise. None was wholly satisfactory. Blood transfusions were the most beneficial, but failed in some cases. Vaccines made from the streptococcus and sera from the blood of recovered victims and inoculated monkeys helped only a few mildly affected patients...
...airlines- Pan American, United, American, Eastern, Transcontinental & Western Air- hatched a plan for a Douglas four-engined super-airplane. They agreed to pool their knowledge and to share the expense of development. Meanwhile, they also agreed to a limitation of airliners: pending the result of the joint effort none of the lines would put in service ships of the projected size (43,000 Ib. to 75,000 lb.). While they had their heads together, T. W. A.'s Captain Daniel W. Tomlinson was working on plans for substratosphere flying for T. W. A.'s President Jack Frye...
...example, when it is offered as an excuse to invite the doctor to dinner that he is still there, Roland drily explains that he won't be if he leaves. Some of the humor is indeed more complex than this sample. Some of it is even vaguely satirical. But none of it is funnier than his mumbled, halting, nonchalant announcements of the ultra-obvious. And that is somehow extremely funny...