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...figure represents an all-time high for war spending. In its simplest terms it means that with every tick of the clock the United States is feeding the war march $2473--more than the average war earner makes in an entire year...
...know tonight, as we stand here, that the walls of this hall shut out a horrible vision of human suffering. All over the world, with every tick of the clock, hundreds of people are dying. Everywhere, as we talk, men are maiming, mutilating, burning each other and blasting each other into all eternity. Women are being buried with their babies in their arms under the ruins of their bombed homes. Whole peoples grow sunken-eyed, bare-boned, rickety-easy preys to pestilence, after famine. And with every breath we take in, some starved child breathes out its last...
...PHANTOM LADY- William Irish-Lippincott ($2). While a convicted murderer watches the minutes tick away in the death house, his best friend, sweetheart, and a detective conduct a death-studded search for a shadowy lady who holds the life-saving alibi. An exciting chase with a stunning climax...
Almost two hundred years had passed and the British still ruled India. But now it was only a matter of days until Aug. 7. Then the clock would tick out the minute when the will of one stubborn little man would be pitted against the Empire...
...Russia Reynolds attended the famous banquet of 23 courses ("the three high spots were perhaps the mushrooms fried in sour cream, the sturgeon in champagne and the pilaf of quail") at which Stalin asked God to bless Franklin Roosevelt. Between courses Author Reynolds found time to tick off some neat thumb nail impressions of Soviet leaders...