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...plainer English, this means that if a farmer got $100 for 100 bushels of wheat in 1909-14, and could buy a new stove and suit of clothes with that $100, his returns today should enable him to buy the same goods with 100 bushels of wheat...
...point squarely at Russia. But no one misunderstood him. His meaning was plain. It became even plainer with the disclosure by William Lyon Mackenzie King (see CANADA) of the busyness of Russian espionage...
...Landsberg, with the help of Rudolf Hess, he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle}. Seldom has a plotter set forth his purposes in plainer language or more explicit detail. The book was badly organized, but in it were the plans for Hitler's aggression against Germany and the rest of the world. The intellectuals contented themselves with laughing at Hitler's ideas and correcting his literary style...
...Plainer than any words, the buying rush gave Wall Street's coldly unsentimental opinion. It might prove to be snap judgment. But the judgment seemed to be that the reforming spirit of the New Deal which had changed the face of business in the last twelve years had died with the reformer...
...cheap rayon and cotton clothes for adults. Both have disappeared almost completely from the market because of OPA's regulations. Under them, manufacturers can make more money by finishing "grey goods" (rough, unbleached cloth) into fancy-looking materials, such as splashy prints, than by finishing it into plainer cloth for cheap clothes. What cheap goods there are for sale are so poor in quality that they will scarcely survive one wartime laundering...