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...soon to plumb the Japanese mind. But as South Pacific fighting went into its second spring, one paradox grew plain: though the Allied position in the past year had improved infinitely, Japan's position was not correspondingly worse. The fighting had only taken up the slack in battle lines. Now each adversary had a firm foothold. The next blow would be to the other's body. The race to assemble the requisite sea and air power probably would determine where and when that blow would fall...
More important still: in discussing the postwar world, the President, while conceding that some governmental spending may be necessary to pick up employment slack, said flatly: "I am certain that private enterprise will provide the vast majority of the jobs...
...highest prices ever, many an insurance outfit had profits of five to 25 points. They had to sell because they needed cash to buy an ever-rising flood of Government bonds. Whatever the reason, this is a good break for private investors: 1) it makes up for the wartime slack in new municipal financing (towns & cities cannot get materials for new construction); 2) it gives them a crack at topflight bonds which have a good yield and are tax-exempt to boot. Result: private investors have already bought enough municipal bonds to knock the floating supply down to about...
...killed his white employer in alleged self-defense. The mob brushed politely past Deputy Sheriff Holder, past the open steel doors and heavy bars. They took Howard Wash away with them to Welborn's Bridge and left him there-hanging limp like a broken crow, his slack toes pointed down at the drying creek...
...about five by five." "That," said Tunesmith De Paul, "is an idea for a song." By the time the evening was over, Raye and De Paul had written the song out complete-on a paper napkin. Four years later Mister Five By Five, plugged to popularity by Bandleader Freddie Slack...