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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor hater. I believe in honest labor unions who are doing their darndest to turn out the weapons we need. . . . But haunting me ... today is the problem on the home front. We must learn to work, work and more work-save and save-if we are to be honest to our God and to those men over there...
...thorough shake-up of the Government appears necessary. The real feelings of the people must be represented in the Government in some way, and the political persecution that is a disgrace to the Allied nations must be ended. Above all, an economic plan must be drawn up to save Morocco from the depression that will follow the departure of U.S. troops. . . . There are numerous trained men and skilled administrators available. . . . Many of them have been sidetracked because they are pro-Allied and anti-German. . . . 'Unless General Nogues and his associates are removed there will be trouble'-that...
...fateful years between 1790 and 1800-when the naked, squalling infant republic had no pacifier but a weary, aging George Washington-The Patriots shows his fervent Secretary of State and his fiery Secretary of the Treasury leaping at each other's throats in their completely opposed efforts to save the country...
...also had trouble with Austrian Inventor Fritz Hansgirg, who kicked at changes in his carbo-thermic process. The U.S. took "Herr Doktor" into custody as an enemy alien in December 1941: Permanente barged ahead. To prevent explosions, Kaiser engineers soaked the magnesium dust in oil; to cut costs and save handling they started using petroleum coke (which contains pitch) instead of coke and pitch; to keep the furnaces going they invented new heat-resistant parts...
...Dublin scholar Joseph Hone, is not by a good deal as great as its subject. Its polished-walnut elegance gives way now to dullness, now to Irish fanciness; its irony and its tact might occasionally have given way to blunter judgment. It goes into local minutiae tiresome to any save the hottest Hibernians. Its biographer cannot with detachment examine Yeats. Yet the book is so rich in its detailing of a significant life, and of the remarkable people who surrounded and shaped it, that it is unlikely that a more valuable work on Yeats will ever be written, and impossible...