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...emergency agencies, with impressive titles and alphabetical nicknames, sprang up, and more were to come : PWA, NRA, HOLC, SEC. CCC meant unemployed boys from grey Brooklyn streets in the green Pacific Northwest woods; PWA meant big concrete dams rising on the Tennessee and the Columbia. WPA meant leaf-raking and boondoggling - and succor for the hungry. A big song hit of 1932 was Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? In 1933, people whistled Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? "Kerensky...
While the western Allies cut toward the head and heart of the dying German dragon, the Red Army sliced up into its belly. Austria, the land whence Adolf Hitler sprang, was invaded...
When Secretary Forrestal sprang his proposal on Congress, he argued that only by such a government-backed corporation could the U.S. hold its own against similar foreign companies. In the past, he said, U.S. companies have been played against each other, have often had to make costly contracts. Also, the U.S. must be able to ' send diplomatic and commercial messages free of prying foreign eyes...
...mouth of the portrait warped in cruelty. He locked it away, where only he could see it. As the years passed, and he lost himself in every depth, of vice the screen dare hint at, he watched the portrait's gradual and fantastic corruption.* He saw how blood sprang out on the right hand when at length he committed murder...
There were the 24th and 38th Divisions of Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's new Eighth Army, both on the Bataan salient. The 24th, commanded by slim, handsome Major General Frederick Augustus Irving, sprang from an old square division in Hawaii. The 24th had been blooded on New Guinea and Leyte. The 38th was the "Cyclone Division" of the Indiana-Kentucky-West Virginia National Guards. Many of its officers had been businessmen; its commander was a regular, Major General Henry L. C. Jones...