Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied attack should be made at any new point, it would be, not the Second Front, but only another front. Yet it might save Egypt from Rommel and prevent an eventual junction between Rommel and the German armies now in Russia...
...Standard's oft-mentioned preoccupation with the almighty dollar did not prevent destruction of $50,000,000 worth of wells and equipment when the Japs surged into Sumatra. Said Farish: "The case which the witnesses attempted to build is a jerry-built house. And the foundation of sand on which the whole thing rests is the assumption that the executives of our company have forgotten that the life-long policy of every American is first, last and always to put almighty America above the almighty dollar...
...left to live for. Son Van had made the penitentiary at last. Loraine and her mother had encountered social and mental disaster in a sometimes successful try at Brother William Faulkner's sort of tragedy. Old Man Towne's one friend, his lawyer, had been unable to prevent the gruesome lynching of his one good child, Wee Boy. The bankers were forced to sell every inch of land Old Man Towne had ever owned. When the old man heard that, he died. The lawyer buried him in an Indian mound, and the Negroes raised above him their rich...
Modern bread differs in two important ways from the old white bread. Improved milling makes possible the inclusion of the wheat germ in the flour. This provides iron and two essential vitamins: thiamin (for a healthy nervous system) and niacin (to prevent pellagra). Such flour need not be "whole wheat," which includes the harsh outer coating of the kernel. Professor Sherman recommends the "longer-extraction" or "wholemeal" flour which discards the coating, but utilizes about 85% of the wheat kernel. It is the basis of the British "national loaf...
...balancing Wall Street Journal said it hoped U.P.'s informant had heard the President aright. But such henny-penny, Morgenthau economics must have been more than annoying to Professor Alvin Hansen, to Mordecai Ezekiel, to Lauchlin Currie, and to a lot of other braintrusters who are planning to prevent any post-war depression by bigger and better deficits. It may have cheered the National Association of Manufacturers, who have not heard the President promise to balance the budget for a long time, but it must have been a shock to those businessmen who still realize that rapid retirement...