Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many books end up in Hollywood. Last week, for a change, two books came out of Hollywood. Both carry identical counsel for the U. S. citizen on identical subjects: Defense, Democracy and World War II. America Is Worth Saving is a spiteful, wretchedly written tract by great, aging Theodore Dreiser (The Titan, An American Tragedy), who lives in Hollywood, lectures to California's women's clubs. The Remarkable Andrew might well be Dreiser's tract scripted into a novel by its author, Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo...
Last week a raw, chilling rain followed eddying snow on the flat frozen prairie north of Detroit. It fell on the just and the unjust, and also on a 113-acre tract between Eleven and Twelve Mile Roads. There the rain, sifting through the steel skeleton of a sprawling, one-story building, gathered like dew on the rough jackets of workmen, stiffened red hands that had to be warmed up before the glowing maws of smoking salamanders. The rain did not slow up the work, any more than the snow had: on & on went the chatter of pneumatic hammers...
...changing world, spent the better part of eight years as Secretary of Agriculture, keeping the death of U. S. cotton export markets a political secret. Only after he became Term III's Vice-Presidential candidate did he publicly confront the dilemma. That was in a book: his campaign tract The American Choice-(Reynal & Hitchcock; $1), which told the U. S. that it would either have to subsidize more domestic consumption of cotton, or move several million surplus cotton farmers off their land...
Milder allergies to foods, pollens, textiles, animal hairs, etc. are produced the same way. Food allergies are often acquired by digestive upsets which allow proteins to get into the blood instead of being broken down in the digestive tract. Some people are born with food allergies, acquired from proteins in the maternal blood during pregnancy...
...jobs were provided for many an unemployed soldier back from the Civil War digging 30 miles of trenches to drain a 345-acre tract of Chicago swampland, on which rose the Union Stock Yards. Last week the yards - now biggest in the world, centre of Chicago's only billion-dollar -a-year industry - observed their 78th anniversary. Over their scales 896 million ani mals have been sold...