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...insure small business "a full part" in mobilization, he expects to set up SDPA offices in Washington and around the nation, although he is "hopeful of keeping our Washington staff below 200." But small business, already in the arms program up to its-ears, hardly seems to need a protector. Of the current military spending, small businessmen are getting 21% in prime contracts, 35% more through subcontracts, e.g., General Motors alone subcontracts to 12,500 other companies. Companies with fewer than 500 employees are enjoying record rates of birth, survival and growth. Next year a tighter squeeze in metal supplies...
Heydrich, Nazi boss of Czechoslovakia. The Nazis shot all of the village's 175 men, sent its women to concentration camps, demolished its houses. The Czechs did not forget Lidice. At war's end, they tracked down the "Butcher of Lidice," Karl Herman Frank, former Nazi protector of Bohemia and Moravia, hanged him with six of his Gestapo henchmen...
...same inn. Cromwell was so impressed with Howard's feints of piety that he invited him to come to his chamber that they might say their goodnight prayer together. Howard consented; but once inside the bedroom he exchanged piety for pistols, bound, gagged and robbed the Protector. Then, says one old source, "taking the pan out of a closestool that stood in the room, which happened to be pretty well filled, he clapped it on [Cromwell's head], crowning him in such a manner as he deserved...
...giving more butterfat in her milk than any other cow in U.S. history, Carnation Homestead Daisy Madcap, a moon-eyed Holstein belonging to the Carnation Co., was crowned "Queen of All Cows." At Daisy's coronation, Carnation Director G. S. Bulkley pronounced the eulogy: "To the dairy cow: protector of our natural health and wealth, fountain of youth of this modern day. To the dairy cow: our slave, our friend, our foster mother. Thank God for the dairy...
...work, his latter-day Peter comes across a new species of wolf: "The sinister, evil voices of the warmongers and Wall Street merchants on their way to Korea, carrying hundreds of thousands of death-dealing bombs." Guarding's enthusiastic conclusion : "The children's best friend and protector lives in the Kremlin...