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...clammy catacombs of a U.S. Government warehouse in Flushing, N.Y. sheltered, last year, bales and bales of old painters' canvas. One day, following an elaborate sheaf of official orders, a truck backed up to the warehouse, carted off the canvases to Manhattan. There were several thousand earnest easel paintings which WPA had somehow deemed "unallocatable." Dr. Win-the-War's Government had decided to liquidate the last traces of Dr. New Deal's great WPArt Project. *The bales of paintings jiggling on the truck were sold for junk...
...White House came angry we-want-in letters from union leaders. Nonetheless the Soldier's President this week signed a sheaf of papers designed to implement the Baruch report by strictly unilateral executive order...
...flatly announced: "The big job is done." In the long months that followed, optimism flowed from the Rubber Director's office; full-page, breast-beating advertisements of many an oil company happily assured the U.S. that the Battle of Rubber had been won. But last week, a sheaf of ominous straws fluttered out of Washington...
Aircraftmaker Donald Douglas sat down at a long walnut desk in his Santa Monica plant and squiggled his name to a sheaf of papers. Fot the president of Douglas Aircraft, the action was a major milestone...
...Days of Trial. Sinkiang presents China with a sheaf of problems, whose solutions all the world will keenly watch. The very riches pose the first problem: for developing resources and plotting communications, have the Chinese got the necessary technical skill? Have they got adequate administrative personnel? Will they retard development of Sinkiang until industrial China is equal to the task, or call in foreign capital...