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With the reports of bounty from the land, there was also good news from great & grimy cities. National employment for July was past the 60,000,000 mark, the figure which crystal-gazing Henry Wallace had hoped could be achieved by 1950 with the aid of pump-priming, full employment bills and more Government regulations. Better yet, the figure was not static; with wartime controls coming off, employment was rising steadily-July's total was 1,400,000 above that of June...
...dusty sedan at the White House door last week, shook hands with the doorman, stopped to gab a while with the President's personal secretary and ambled in to see the boss. Harry Truman exclaimed, "Well, look who's back," and jumped up to pump the fat man's hand...
...Wine, Old Bottle. In Hollywood, somebody stole Calven Walsten's car, returned it with a new fuel pump, new fuel line, new tire, a note of apology...
...existence as a whole was hardly dreary. Edith and Osbert performed musical marvels on a pianola, while Sacheverell, too young to pump, "listened to us both with a flattering air of respect and, even of rapture." A well-meaning aunt gave lectures on the social impossibility of otherwise well-meaning people who pronounced girl as gurl. There were ancestral ghosts in Tudor or Jacobean chambers, and the spectacle of daily prayers, attended by a long line of footmen and housemaids, "seemingly well-drilled as a corps de ballet." Big-eyed, the little Sitwells took everything in. Their world was almost...
...authorities on the tasks that will beset the peace commission." Departing men from all the classes cheered the Class Orator at the special valedictory service held in January of 1943 when he set forth the principle "that isolation for America belongs as much to the past as the town pump . . . And the more we submerge ourselves to the interest of . . . greater international organization the better it will be for global cooperation and ultimately for ourselves...