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...closely tied to the free-enterprise U.S. than to Britain in matters affecting their national security. South Africa is strategically British, politically split by Boer nationalism, and socially ridden by extreme racism. Eire takes full advantage of its independence; its chief importance in world affairs is as a bottomless reservoir of ill-will toward its once heavy-handed master...
...drive. Anyone alive to events during the recent conflict, whether in or out of service, appreciates the value of the conveniently located blood bank, such is familiar with the rudiments of blood giving. Keeping abreast with the Armed Forces and many other states, Massachusetts is building up a blood reservoir which is on tap without cost to any resident of the State including those in attendance at schools here...
...prices increase profit margins and the swollen net profits of wartime are surpassed in the rush to "get yours," who will be thinking of that day several years from now when the seemingly inexhaustible consumer demand created by wartime shortages has dried up? When, in a few years, the reservoir of investment opportunity has been fully exploited, when the building boom dies from natural causes, when the consumer fever cools from surfeit or a shortage of cash, there will be a bust that will make 1929 look like a temporary recession...
That was in 1863. Today Istanbul's Robert College, and the seven others in the Near East College Association,† have 40,000 alumni, including 29 U.N. delegates and advisers, have become the biggest single reservoir of U.S. goodwill in the strategic Near East. Last week 59 U.S. teachers sailed from New York to restaff the Near East colleges...
...pursue him further and he continued on to his home at 29 Reservoir Street. He was unable in the darkness to determine the appearance of the number of his assailants. The apparent purpose of the attack was robbery, but the men did not succeed in getting at Magoun's wallet...