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...last visit to the Soviet Union, the ex-official of the War Production Board Recalled sounding everybody as best he could from Number One Down to discredited ex-czarist ballerinas. He found the citizens of the U.S.S.R. convinced that they are moving alone the torrent of an historically determined mission, with force as the logical last appeal...
...animals (including a high percentage of culls and inferior grades), but they got record prices for them as slaughterers, too, fought for quick predeadline profits. The Chicago price for full-fed steers hit an alltime high of $28.40 a hundredweight, then rose another $1.60. First day this week, the torrent turned into a deluge. Trucks loaded with hogs and steers were lined up 30 blocks waiting for the yards to open. By sundown the number of steers received was approximately 40,000, just a cut or two under the famous Dust Bowl liquidations...
...constitutes a tacit admission on the part of the University that it is no longer capable of providing quarters for all of its students. Every trick in the bag, including the re-classification of every room in the Houses, has been used in an effort to house the human torrent that will flood over Harvard next month...
Mountain to Molehill. Out of the White House tumbled a torrent of major & minor appointments: Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton to the newly created post of Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; Kentucky newspaper editor and onetime governor Keen Johnson to be the first Under Secretary of Labor; seven other new diplomats, judges, administrative aides...
Kremlin Service. Into GHQ Palgunov's overseas staff pours a daily torrent: full texts of speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, Government handouts, technical and business reports, verbatim pickups from A.P., U.P., the New York Times. They need not bother to slant their stuff; Moscow takes care of that. But neither Moscow's " big-circulation tour-page dailies, like Pravda and Izvestia, nor any other Soviet paper prints much more foreign news than many small-town U.S. dailies...