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First of a 14-volume "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II" to roll off the press, Professor Morison's book covers the period from October 1942 to June 1943, and was written largely from personal observations...
...population is destined to roll its resistless waves to the icy barriers of the north," said William Henry Seward 101 years ago. Twenty-one years later, he bought one of the Arctic marches-Alaska -for less than 2? an acre. He would have bought Canada and Greenland if he could. He tried to get Denmark's Virgin Islands, but was a half-century ahead of his countrymen. When the islands were bought during World War I, one of Seward's successors, bumbling Robert Lansing, tossed in a quitclaim to northern Greenland...
What the U.S. Government could afford to spend would depend, finally, upon what the U.S. earned. If good times were ahead, taxes would roll in and even the present high cost of government would be bearable. Before his budget went to Congress, Harry Truman sent up his economic report (required by the Employment Act of 1946) as background material...
...cushions, the ball both lost and gained velocity. The fact is, Professor Moore discovered, that when Hoppe cued the ball with English-as any poolroom fan could have told him, though not in so many words-he gave the ball rotational energy as well as its usual translational or rolling energy. When the ball's spin slowed, the energy was turned into forward roll...
...television, it was a historic week. At the opening of the 80th Congress, the House of Representatives was televised for the first time. During interminable roll calls, television's great eye strayed about the House-catching children sitting still as Capitol mice on Representatives' laps, investigating the planetary glow of congressional baldpates...