Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideal podium from which to launch an attack on intervention. Nevertheless, no matter what may be our individual and collective attitudes towards isolation, we must applaud Colonel Lindbergh's letter of resignation as a dignified statement from a fellow-citizen in our democracy. This statement is thrown into even sharper relief by the circumstances which brought it about. The President's vilifying personal remarks will do him no good ultimately. Today they stand as rather sorry commentary on a public servant whose usual taste and breeding do not oblige him to seek such questionable levels of expression...
...blue eyes were sharper than April sky, and if he rubbed his hands with queer, excited jerks, that was only natural. Excitement makes him thrive and happy. Moreover he was about to compose his own words of destiny...
...proportion to the gain. How could the many Governments in exile be restored to power? How could Hitler be overthrown without a U. S. expeditionary force? Colonel Lindbergh asked: What plan did the U. S. have for making itself effective in Europe? Other isolationist writers put a sharper question: How could supplying Britain with the "tools" do more than prolong the war? How could 2,000,000 British soldiers, even supplied with U. S. arms, "somehow plough their way through the Balkans and conquer 6,000,000 German soldiers...
Since railroad overhead costs are both large and inflexible, an abrupt rise in car-loadings means an even sharper rise in railroad profits. Once the break-even point is passed, "leverage" carries much of the increase in gross directly to net. Thus February carloadings of all Class 1 roads were 23% over 1940, but net operating income (profit before interest and taxes) rose 75%. Two other bullish points are labor and taxes. Shielded by intricate Federal machinery, the railroads have not had a big strike since 1922. By taking the 8%-on-capital option of the excess-profits tax, most...
...over corpses") was still laughing. But there were few who wanted to argue that U. S. production was flowing as well as it could, that the maximum U. S. strength was behind U. S. arming and aid to democracies, that U. S. morale was all that it should be. Sharper than most, the Bullitt speech fitted into the vast literature of warning and appeal that has filled the U. S. since World War II began-in the speeches of President Roosevelt, the writings and statements of Cabinet officers, in editorials and Congressional debates. If the U. S. effort still lacked...