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...Behind is ... testimony to the power of artillery: hole upon hole, fragment upon fragment, a worn shred torn from the Völkischer Beobachter, the soggy yellow bones of a hand, helmets, old shoes, pieces of steel, an unexploded stick of bombs, unidentifiable fragments...
...would. He points out that in copper, steel and other basic materials, price increases would not draw out really significant new capacity; he notes that in copper no price rise within reason would avert the necessity of copper imports, now averaging 25,500 tons a month; that almost every shred of present steel capacity is being utilized, even to moving Negro families out of old beehive ovens in the South. He points to the automobile industry's recent 20% production curtailment, says that if you tried to get the same diversion of capacity by letting prices rise, you would...
...Every Harvard man must be disturbed by the way in which, in your quotation of this morning from a Washington paper, President Conant's personal position in regard to the war was pictured as affecting the justice of his relations within the University. There is not a shred of basis for this imputation: and many would welcome it if the Crimson would express the strong feeling of Harvard on this point, since the University cannot but suffer when its president is defamed. William Ernest Hocking...
...week that followed his address to the nation-an address in which he had shucked off the last shred of U. S. neutrality-the White House was flooded with messages, voicing approval in a ratio of 100-to-1. Even the Baltimore Sun's Frank Kent, bitter critic of the New Deal, wrote: "There can be no doubt that the President has voiced what the great bulk of Americans have in their hearts...
...controlled the extremities of the Mediterranean, Britain's fight would be far harder, might be impossible. Without the oil fields of Iraq, without tenable naval bases in the Mediterranean to harry the Axis on its southern flank, without the help of the Moslem world and without the last shred of support in the Balkans, Britain would be hard...