Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, many a U. S. businessman was not so sure. In spite of the violent reaction of the stock and commodity markets, it was still too early to measure the exact effect of Hitler's new war on his sales, production, profits. Like a sleeper half-waking, he felt no change, but sensed also that things would be very different in a little while. He had already been nudged by $11,477,316 of educational orders for war goods let so far in fiscal '40 by the U. S. Army and Navy. (Already six times...
Since then no first-class U. S. work in this field had appeared to vie with H. G. Wells's Anticipations or The Sleeper Awakes. But this week one did. The First to Awaken is Granville Hicks's first considerable work of fiction. It would seem to indicate that when Writer Hicks resigned from the Communist Party last autumn he began to live again. Nicely, almost winningly written, in a sort of First Reader style, and full of sunny, skillful little pen drawings by Collaborator Richard Bennett, the book should fascinate those readers who would just as soon...
...refused to take the 1940 Campaign seriously until it knew where Franklin Roosevelt stood. Round-shouldered Columnist Raymond Clapper reported that the Midwest had only the "mildest interest" in the Presidential race. Whirling Washington agreed generally that, while Franklin Roosevelt is evidently preparing to retire, he is a light sleeper and is leaving his bedroom door open...