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...world know more about missions than Dr. Mott. Their indefatigable booster, he has never been a blind optimist about them. In 1930 a talk he made to a lay group called together by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (who put up the requisite $675,000) led to the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry and resulted in the much-debated Re-Thinking Missions-probably the severest appraisal of missions churchmen have ever penned...
...first fireside talk after Pearl Harbor, Optimist Roosevelt reported: "A review this morning leads me to the conclusion that at present we shall not have to curtail our normal use of articles of food...
...words of that incurable optimist, Mr. Wilkins Micawber, rang in the ears of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau last week, Mr. Morgenthau gave no sign. He had just floated the biggest peacetime loan in U.S. history-$1,504,425,000* to keep the Government going until Dec. 1. This loan brought the U.S. national debt to a record high...
...When this program was first presented to the shipbuilders," wrote Texan Admiral Sam Robinson, "it was regarded by them as being nothing short of fantastic. ... It was generally felt . . . that only an incorrigible optimist could expect that the goal [a two-ocean fleet by 1947] would ever be reached...
...long warned of gasless Sundays, and threatened with arrest for smoky exhausts or jackrabbit starts. But it did not befuddle Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes or his deputy, Ralph K. Davies, vice president of Standard Oil of California. It just infuriated them, the more so because Pelley is a super-optimist from way back. From the Maritime Commission's own report, Davies promised to show that only 17 - not 26 - tankers were in Latin American ports, that seven of the 17 were already in use, and that only three of the remainder were undamaged and usable...