Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Congress was sick to its innards of the Administration technique of give-us-billions-and-we'll fix-everything-up. The members felt: 1) that no conceivable number of billions could really roll back prices ; 2 ) what was needed was management, not money. The British subsidy success they understood; Britain imports 35% of its food, and controls can easily be applied from the docks to the stores. The job is as nothing compared to payments to 6,000,000 U.S. farmers...
What this movie does is to present a fair picture of the book. Its success is apparent from the fact that one gets the same impression from reading the book as from seeing the pic, and the one merely reinforces the other...
During an eruption of volcanic Mauna Loa in Hawaii in 1935, U.S. Army airmen tried (with debatable success) to divert the flow of lava by dropping a few bombs on strategic spots. Last week Allied bombers, flying over the smoky craters of Mt. Etna in Sicily and Mt. Vesuvius on the Bay of Naples, thought of other strategic spots: could a few well-placed bombs start Etna and Vesuvius erupting...
Frank Laubach has set up his charts for no less than 79 tongues, has recently been working on his 80th - Korean. Orthodox teachers have orthodox reservations about Laubach's teaching methods, but none whatever about the great success of his life work. Laubach himself gives full credit to God for sending him on a job at which he has "more fun than anybody else in the world." But he warns that reading, itself, is not enough-there must be the right kind of reading. "Democracy, Protestantism, and literacy are triplets...
...continual studying and preparation for the duties and responsibilities of an officer. The Parker House Roof will again be the scene of their revelry, and if last Saturday's affairs was a pre-vue of the coming dance, then there is no doubt of its being a tremendous success...