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...McKittrick the Missouri Democrats got a nominee who might run a poorer race in November than Bennett Clark. For one thing, his victory split the party wide open. Bennett Clark let fly a statement in which he "cheerfully" accepted the verdict of the voters. This cheer was spoiled somewhat by the statement's heavy sour-graping over what he called the "communist-controlled" P.A.C...
...western Pacific, fronting on the Philippine Sea. Saipan and Guam could serve only as staging points for a fleet; what was wanted was a landlocked basin such as Pearl Harbor, a blue lagoon like Kwajalein, Eniwetok or Majuro. A fine harbor could be had at Palau, a poorer one at Yap; a lagoon could be secured at one of several atolls in the western Carolines-far beyond the bypassed enemy strongholds of Truk and Ponape...
...restrictions with monumental hats that take six meters of fabric to erect. . . . They fight to order 5,000 franc hats at the leading Parisian modistes and roll around the town in horse cabs at 500 francs a course, lest they be mobbed by indignant crowds in the subway. In poorer quarters, eyes have the wolfish glare that must have reflected the guillotine under that other terror...
...picture is a fine thing to see, but one which is obviously a large piece of Hollywoodized propaganda is difficult to stomach. Perhaps it's the monotony of seeing one atrocity after another dragging its bloody stump across the screen, but this corner just thinks the show is poorer than average...
Professor Abbott asserts that although the cash balances of business concerns have greatly increased since 1939, the working capital position of manufacturing business is poorer than before the war. The significant aspects of the situation are not the increases in cash and current assets but the ratio of these current assets to liabilities, and the adequacy of current assets to maintain present production levels in the future...