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...railroads, which all during the '30s labored under such big debts and low revenues that many an observer wrote them off as ripe for Government socialization, last week continued to turn in a new, startling kind of performance...
People reading the promise of news to come were ripe for rumors...
...fabulous painting which scandalized the '80s was seen in public last week for the first time since 1901. In Manhattan's Durand-Ruel Galleries visitors could look upon Adolphe William Bouguereau's nearly 12-ft. masterpiece, Nymphs and Satyr. A quartet of ripe, naked maidens prancing around a preoccupied faun was for 24 years the despair of Victorian moralists and the delight of the clubmen who crowded Manhattan's Hoffman House...
...hours after Pearl Harbor the Santa Fe's Super Chief and the Union Pacific's City of Los Angeles were holed into sidings to let the first troop and munition trains thunder westward to the Coast. From then on the rails, which during 1940 and 1941 looked ripe for socialization to New Deal enthusiasts, turned in a record which made the socialization argument academic. Passenger-miles increased from 29 billion to 50 billion, or over 70%; freight ton-miles jumped from 475 to 630 billion, or 33%. Carloadings were practically unchanged from 1941, but loadings per car were...
...disturbing trend in internationalist thought. Professors Kohn, Wild, and Buell are representative of the intelligent internationally-minded group which has urged a more effective international organization and an "adequate" curtailment of the sovereignty of all nations. Without this, they felt, and we still feel, that the world will be ripe for a third global conflict. But the other evening they put almost all their emphasis upon the role of power and "realism" in the post war settlement...