Word: tilling
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...with deep satisfaction that I found included in TIME [June 18] the extensive excerpts from Congressman Walter H. Judd's speech on "Our Ally China." I spent four and a half months in China (from mid-November till the last of March) as deputy to Donald M. Nelson and chief adviser to the Chinese War Production Board. This gave me an unusual opportunity to have first-hand knowledge of the situation in China, . . . and to witness the remarkable progress that was made in production of war materials and essential civilian supplies by the Chinese War Production Board under...
...swung it down to earth again when it had taken on its frantic load. Captain Beaton, scorched out of his pilot house, attempted to climb to a lower deck but fell. He plunged into the water from the portside, climbed back aboard up the crane boom, stayed there till all were...
...started again until six weeks ago-too late to ease the present crisis. Belatedly, this spring, the Army also ordered 1,600 troop cars. WPB has issued high priorities for the manufacture of 664 passenger cars, but the bulk of them will not be delivered till December at the earliest. If deployment continues to move faster than its schedule, the Army will have to dip into the civilian supply again...
Equipment is only part of the problem; the rest is manpower. The War Manpower Commission gave the railroads no better a deal than did WPB. For nearly four years of war, the railroads' key men were steadily drained into the armed forces. Not till last May, after the roads had lost 300,000 men to the services, were they granted top manpower priorities...
...Roman Empire he imparted equally to his own life, and to his own account of it. In his Memoirs he reduced the ardent youthful romance that his father frowned upon to an immaculate antithesis: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son"-and thereafter lived without love till the day he died. But the plump, pompous little man with the snuffbox and the button mouth had his work (the Decline and Fall took him 15 years), his noble friends, his admirers, his elegant, discreet amusements, his intimations of immortality. Small wonder if, as somebody remarked, he frequently mistook...