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...fall within the daily scope of his activities. In all of these Durant is the perfect Yankee, shrewd and tight-lipped, but eminently fair. From his office in Lehman Hall the building and maintenance services that employ 1500 men and women are controlled with a canny eye towards thrift and an instinctive conservatism that marks an administrative officer of Harvard University...
...Schoolteacher Inez Thrift's experience in an aircraft factory: "After a few days I occasionally felt a oneness with my machine. . . . And the picking up and quarter-turning of each part fell into a rhythmic pattern. . . . "The bee's kiss now,' as I bore down firmly on the reamer. 'The moth's kiss now,' as I lightly burred the edges...
...willing to be rationed, but wanted the rationing to be done fairly. Said he: "Mr. Bowles has told you that it is bad economics to be thrifty and bad morals to be honest with yourself or your Government. He has proved that profligacy is a virtue and thrift a vice. When you get a chance gorge yourself, because your stamps might be canceled. Thanks very much, Mr. Bowles, for the lesson in morals...
...Thrift and Gifts. Until zooming taxes pared actual income, frugal Bachelor King saved hefty chunks from his public pay. He saved even more when, in the years following 1910, he served as an industrial counselor, for fat fees. Aside from his present salary and investments, he has two piddling sources of income. Royalties from his books still trickle in. And on a lake on his 100-acre Kingsmere summer estate, some 15 miles north of Ottawa, the Prime Minister has built a few sturdy cottages, rents them to vacationers...
...million hours a week, or only 4% more than we worked in 1929, can produce 240% more national income. Let's think straight. If they are real dollars we shall have to buy and build production facilities far more efficient than we now have. This will take time, thrift, investment and hard work. High income will not be realized by wishful thinking...