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...this made a background for the President's words, as fitting as the words themselves. From Charlottesville, where he had been resting in "Pa" Watson's three-roomed guest house, the President had motored along the ridges above the Shenandoah Valley, through miles of green pine and spruce, past miles of mountain laurel and white dogwood. At the dead-end of a one-way street, facing a hill that led to the main part of town, the President stood before the old Presbyterian manse. He looked pale and worn; his hands trembled. He began...
...weeks before war was declared, after six weeks of intensive effort, Baruch, commissioner in charge of raw materials, had set up organizations for total war: industrial committees of leaders in the great materials groups: leather, rubber, steel, wool, nickel, oil, zinc, coal, spruce wood. Then, at a time when War Department officers had no plans, even hypothetical, for the organization and equipment of an army of any size, the Advisory Commission began calculating what an army of 1,000,000 men would need...
...golden spurs. He used to be a great athlete-an all-Navy cricket and rugby player, a squash-courts intimate of Edward of Windsor, an enthusiastic pursuer of the fox's brush-and still keeps himself trim by touching the floor 100 times every morning. He looks so spruce that he is often taken for a brother of his elder...
Opposite the Earl was a gentleman who had been his Kenya neighbor since the early '20s. This was spruce, mustachioed Major Sir Henry John Delves ("Sir Jock") Broughton, 57. An old Etonian, he had inherited his ancestral Doddington Park in Cheshire, and a half-million pounds, from a recluse relative. An ardent racing fan, he had served through World War I in the Irish Guards, where he was known as the best card player in the officers' mess. Early in 1940, after 26 years of marriage, Sir Jock had been divorced by Lady Broughton, an avid sportswoman...
Last week's Government plans were announced by spruce, aristocratic Captain Oliver Lyttelton, President of the Board of Trade. For months Britain has cut the production of consumers' goods by price controls, taxes, limitations on supplies, propaganda. The aim has been to free labor for war industries, prevent inflation, encourage investment in war securities as against general spending. As a result most consumers'-goods industries have recently worked only part time, often at as little as 20% of capacity. Last week Captain Lyttelton pointed out that these part-time operations were eating up the factories' working...