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They stayed in session till 9 p.m., but reached no agreement on the rules or the invitations. Over & over again the next day Molotov said: "The Soviet delegation cannot agree to anything which will violate the Moscow Declaration and which will make the Peace Conference a shtampuyushchaya mashina [rubber stamp machine...
Alarmed, Harold Stassen sent down the order: step on the gas. Though he kept mum himself, he was working hard behind the scenes, directing every move, writing or editing most of the speeches. With ten days till election, the outcome was touch...
When the casual observer, having overshot Langdell Hall, lands in someone's back yard and mutters, "It's not much, but it's a roof over your head," the occupants smile and retort: "It doesn't look like much from here, but wait till you get inside." In one corner of a large living room, paneled in something resembling oak, is a sink, a stove and a refrigerator, amounting to what real-estate merchants call a "kitchenette." The bedrooms run off the main room, and the bathroom, which contains, among other things, a shower, is discreetly hidden. The whole place...
...total extent of the cache is estimated at 400 to 500 million board feet, less than prewar's normal stock, but far above recent stocks. From Logansport, La. to Broken Bow, Okla. the lumber was piling up. Lumbermen said they were "curing it." But up till a few months ago, many of the yards had shipped it green. Said one Texas lumberman after flying over the area: "It looked like there were acres of lumber around some of those mills...
Canadians are pardonably proud that they paid for their own war without U.S. Lend-Lease aid. But not till last week did they learn how narrowly they had squeezed around the financial corner...