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...this cut the ships make longer voyages than ever before. Scores of U.S. freighters ply routes new to them-around the Cape of Good Hope, for example, and into the Red Sea, with airplanes, tanks, guns and food for Allied forces in Africa. Others plough the Pacific to Australia, India and the Straits Settlements, come back deep-laden with rubber, tin, wool, hemp. For its trade links with Latin America, the Good Neighbor program must depend on U.S. ships...
...crashed his plane and his job in Georgia. He came back to manage his brother's plantation near Oxford, where he "raised niggers and mules." John Faulkner admits he is still not much of a farmer, says "it would take a man a lifetime to learn how to plough a straight furrow...
...Lindbergh asked: What plan did the U. S. have for making itself effective in Europe? Other isolationist writers put a sharper question: How could supplying Britain with the "tools" do more than prolong the war? How could 2,000,000 British soldiers, even supplied with U. S. arms, "somehow plough their way through the Balkans and conquer 6,000,000 German soldiers...
...Willard Hotel, from which the Forum is broadcast, work themselves into a knock-down-drag-out humor even before they reach a mike. A memorable evening was provided by Burton Wheeler when he growled that the "New Deal's triple 'A' foreign policy" would "plough under every fourth American boy." Spectators at the show are also often difficult. Before he established the rule that questions from the floor must be submitted in writing, Granik was bothered by claques of Coughlinites and Communists, who yelped at great length and to no purpose. He places only one restriction...
Chief argument of management against raises now is that they will hasten the inflationary spiral of rising prices and costs, leave labor's real wages lower, or no better, than before. But Murray has run his own plough around the field of economics and is convinced that labor could get a bigger share of profits now, and could do so without disturbing present prices and costs. He cries shame over a Social Security report that 10,000,000 workers in private industry earned less than $500 apiece in 1937 (highest wage year between...