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Johnny: What's an optimist...
...back again looking for business; he has borrowed some money and has started up again in another basement. Round the streets he walks all day picking up what scraps of work he can. He cheerfully says, "I am now in a position to give you excellent service"-a true optimist meeting business under difficulties...
...last week few indeed were the businessmen who expected to get much richer. But many a twice & thrice disappointed optimist was pinching himself. What he thought he saw was a pretty substantial production boom already well under...
...wishful optimist is Theodore Paul Wright. Mr. Wright, Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s vice president of engineering, last week was at work for Mr. Knudsen. In Aviation's July issue, Expert Wright appraised the aircraft industry, concluded that the U. S. may be able to better the Germans' rate of increase in their air force (from 4,300 planes in 1936 to a reported 31,000 last May). Wrote Mr. Wright (before he joined the Defense Commission): "It is estimated that an airplane production rate of approximately 2,000 a month, or 24,000 a year...
...father had always talked to him about the melting pot of golden opportunity that was America. But his father was a buoyant optimist of the 1890's and early 1900's, while Vag was inclined to think of himself as a hard-boiled post-war cynic. His was a practical America, a country of depressions and recessions and bonus armies, not a haven with free land for all and riches for the picking. But occasionally Vag's cynicism was subjected to disquieting qualms. He was particularly haunted by visions of a vitriolic figure with an extremely photogenic face who hopped...