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Franklin Roosevelt thus was optimistic himself about the Battle of the Atlantic, which was now a major defeat. The U.S. people, high & low, throve on hope, withered on gloom...
...both companies Panagra proved a smart investment. It throve despite jungles and mountains, and (until the Good Neighbor policy began hitting in high) a surplus of foreign competition. Business doubled in 1940, doubled again in 1941. Today Panagra owns 14 sleek Douglas transports, has over $7,500,000 in assets...
...that of Editor Alfred Frankfurter in Art News: "There is involved here a principle which far transcends the museum purchase. ... It is the principle of the right of a cultural institution ... to exist on behalf of the public without political interference or dictation." Meanwhile, political interference and dictation throve mightily over half the continent of Europe. Critics these days are inclined to credit Adolf Hitler with intense political intelligence, but to a big majority of the world's artists he remains a fool as well as a nuisance. Hitherto, Hitler has contented himself mainly with declaring what...
...Harry Hart throve on the strenuous Chicago pace, opening a small clothing store in Chicago in 1872. When an out-of-town merchant admired their stocks, the Hart boys offered to supply him with a few suits, a move which soon led to the establishment of a wholesale house, one of their backers being a relative named Marcus Marx, who had run a general store in Hastings, Minn. Aside from drawing down profits, that was all that Marx ever had to do with Hart Schaffner & Marx...
...such rumors started in any U. S. city save one last fortnight they would have been exceedingly short-lived. But in Butte, these and many another shocking, terrifying story flew through the city, throve and multiplied like bats in darkness. For Butte's 40,000 inhabitants were without a local newspaper for two weeks...