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...monumental dissenting opinions on the Supreme Court bench, Brandeis objected to size--to financial pyramids, to huge monopolies, to interminable leases. When speaking of the necessity for control of such institutions, he was fond of quoting an old German proverb: "Care is taken that the trees do not scrape the skies...
...returns are good, the hat may be passed on a nationwide scale this summer. How much aluminum scrap there is in U.S. pantries and basements, no one knows. But 0PM calculates that if each U.S. family gives up one pound, it can scrape together 30,000,000 lb.-better than a fortnight's production...
...fire, knives, legalistic arguments were of no avail in the face of a bigger issue. Ex-Senator Matt Neely was a friend of the Administration, and last week the Administration could still dig up enough political debtors, scrape together enough votes to run the Senate. The president of Fairmont State Teachers College got his job by just two votes...
...records are abominably handled, coming often in the middle of a phrase (the effect is as though the soundtrack has been chopped off with an axe), while on at least three sides there is an entire half-inch of waste space at the beginning, during which the needle scrape-scrapes around, and the listener forgets what was happening at the end of the last side. All this without mentioning defects in the performance, such as Koussevitzky's ponderous tempo in the "Credo," and the inadequacy of the solo tenor...
...tons in 1919, 2,476,253 in 1920. Then the U. S. sat down again and remembered it was a landlubber. Hog Islanders and other ugly but effective freighters were tied up by the hundreds to rust, were sold or junked. By 1935 U. S. shipping began to scrape bottom again, a miserable 3,065,000 tons. Over 75% of the merchant fleet had sailed 15 of its 20-year effective life. By 1942 close to 92% of the ocean-going fleet built for World War I will be hope lessly old and obsolete...