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...pound." At the O'Brien mine near Kirkland Lake, Ont., speculators caressed a new-found slab of what mining men call "jewelry"-a ten-pound chunk of practically pure gold worth $2,000. At Noranda's golf course, golfers played around two gold-drilling sites smack in the middle of a fairway. The gold stock market reached its highest point in four years...
Soon Franklin Roosevelt will be smack in the middle of his Term IV campaign. He will also be smack in the middle of one of the toughest politico-economic dilemmas of his career: he must decide whether to relax the Little Steel formula in order to permit the wage increases demanded by the A.F. L. and C.I.O. If he allows wages to rise, price stabilization might collapse; if he holds the lid down on wages, he may lose important labor support...
...holiday that week so I went on working. Alerts were steady and we were taking spells on the aircraft-spotting tower. Well, at one particular imminent-danger warning I was on the tower and over a flying bomb came. She missed and fell and I thought, "Christ, right smack on Hillford Garden,"-that's where we live. So when the imminent passed I went to the gate and got on the phone to a neighbor and there was no answer. Just then a lorry pulled in and the driver said: "Don't worry, Mate. I hear...
...standing where the air-raid shelters are in the middle of the green among the houses, chatting to a bloke, and one come in. We watched it and it looked like it was going to pass about 400 yards to our right, and it suddenly wings over and dives smack...
...with members of his family. He was imperious: "Tell those butt-heads we will assemble tomorrow morning" was his way of summoning fellow Senators to a meeting of his Agriculture Committee. He once formulated his economic, social and political thinking in one sentence: "Gentlemen, we are right in the smack-dab middle of a jackass...