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...Jewish agricultural settlement. Contrast is your next door neighbor in Palestine: the winding and tortuous lanes that are the streets of Jericho and Beersheba; the broad landscaped boulevards of Tel Aviv; the picturesque and "perfumed" Arab Markets in the "Old City"; the Hospital and Hebrew University that overlook the New Jerusalem; an orange grove pushing back the desert; an Arab fellah hurrying his sheep to the side of the road to let a convey of British tanks...
...airlines forget to add bus fares to & from airports (and bus travel time as well). Also they overlook their limited baggage allowances. ... We accept the fact that airplanes have one primary advantage-speed. But we think trains have a lot of advantages too, including economy and plenty of room to move around...
...Thus far our legislators, deaf to the warnings of the leading scientists, have shown no inclination to permit international control. They give tacit credence to Winston Churchill's bland assurance that "no one sleeps less soundly in his bed" because the United States possesses the atomic bomb. Serenely, they overlook the millions who scarcely touch their beds as they labor night and day to reduce the margin of military supremacy now possessed by this country. Nor will many men anywhere sleep soundly so long as this greatest of all weapons is a playtoy of national sovereignty...
...Much as we desire to avoid a steel strike, we cannot overlook the effect both on this corporation and on our customers and American business in general. An 18½?-an-hour wage increase . . . must result in higher prices for steel than have previously been proposed by the Government. Great financial harm would soon follow for all users of steel. . . . Such a high and unjustified wage scale might well spell financial disaster for many of the smaller steel companies and for a large number of steel fabricators and processors. The nation needs the output of these companies...
...well-informed Whitehall Letter, driving this point home, last week noted that it would be foolish "to overlook the fact that Russia's problems of demobilization, reconversion and reconstruction must inevitably be of a formidable character." This, with the rest of the letter, was a polite way of saying that Jimmy Byrnes & Co. had indeed been so foolish as to overlook exactly those factors, and had acted in Moscow as though Russia were invulnerable to any and every form of resistance to her demands...