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...Bullitt swiftly told off his hosts with sharp criticisms of the police state. From 1936 to 1941, he was in Paris, now "the champagne ambassador," cutting a social swath unequaled before or since-and deluging Washington with memos warning against the rise of Nazi Germany and the dry rot in France. Largely retired after World War II, he spoke out for a U.S. naval blockade of Red China during the Korean War, sought support for invasion by Chiang Kaishek. Only last month his name was in the headlines with the publication of Thomas Woodrow Wilson-A Psychological Study, a sharply...
...Rot & Rust. Despite these shifts in direction, Burma still remains one of the most determinedly socialist and neutralist nations in Southeast Asia. Ne Win has nationalized more than 90% of Burma's industry and created a socialist bureaucracy that would give even Moscow the shivers. The distribution system, handled by military men with no economic experience, distributes almost nothing. While warehouses bulge with goods that often rot or rust away, store managers are faced with too many customers and too little merchandise. They stage lotteries, giving successive winners the privilege of buying whatever is left on the shelves, which...
...defense, Lane should never have gone to the jury-in this case the moviegoing public-with such a shaky case. He appears to be under the impression that Rush to Judgment rips the hide off America to expose the corruption beneath. But it only exposes the dry rot of his own unreasonable arguments...
Secretary Gardner at the time of his presidency of the Carnegie Corporation, "How to Prevent Organizational Dry Rot...
Cursed by unrelieved warmth and sun, and by new production from south ern-Florida groves, the current crop will surpass last season's 100 million boxes (100 lbs. each) by 42 million. When the nine-month harvest ends in June, nearly 10 million boxes may be left to rot unsold. Oranges "on the tree" cost 75? a box to grow and last year brought a handsome $1.25. They are now going at a distress price of 35? a box, leaving growers with the prospect of a $50 million loss on the crop...