Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peaceful wooded hills of northern New Jersey, at Kenvil, lie the 400 acres of one of Hercules Powder Co.'s seven explosive plants. In this sub-sylvan spot, men, treading softly, cook a recipe of destruction...
Modern teachers believe that dull children are worth cultivating, have shown that with proper encouragement a sub-par child may produce remarkable paintings, sculpture, craftsmanship. They have been less successful in teaching such children to read and write...
...Democrats who in 1928 supported the La Follette Resolution condemning a third term as "unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions." One is Arizona's Ashurst. Another is bumbling Alben Barkley. Last week, to embarrass them, Nebraska's Edward Burke invited them to his sub-committee hearings on his proposed Constitutional amendment limiting a President to one six-year term, to explain their support of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt. They hedged. Rumbled Alben Barkley: "A wise man may change his mind, but a fool never does." Quipped Henry Fountain Ashurst: "I am confronted...
...futile anti-trust crusades "men like Senator Borah founded political careers." When Arnold confronted the Senate sub committee that was to approve his Department of Justice appointment, his chief questioner was Borah. Arnold said he believed in the anti-trust laws. Said Borah, closing The Folklore of Capitalism: "I've been sadly misled by your book." In office, Arnold continued to mislead...
...thousands of common stockholders in sub-par roads, the ICC report was not cheering. Some (MOP, New Haven, North Western) have been wiped out completely. But oldtimers in Wall Street recalled the drastic reorganizations of Santa Fe and Union Pacific in the '90s, their good earnings since...