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...great Gujerat floods. Everything broke down-transport, communications, all methods of distribution. The general Indian attitude used to be to regard such catastrophes as acts of God What little relief there was usually came from a British Government which took its good time to relieve distress. Patel initiated an unheard-of fund-raising drive for the relief of the flood victims. Supplies were moved into the flood areas by hundreds of volunteers wading through waist-deep water, carrying boxes and sacks on their heads. When lumber was required for constructing small bridges or building houses, Patel arranged...
...forms that must be filled out! I wish I had kept account of the time spent filling forms. In England we check the register in the morning and that is all. This business of playing hooky [is] unheard of in England. . . . We trust [the children] and they...
With these and other foreign records as samples of what to expect, Americans seem to be in for a period of record prosperity. Foreign companies are catering to the U. S. market even to the unheard-of extent of making pressings in automatic sequence, and if buyers can meet the higher prices, they will be in for some lush musical treats...
...loves his ex-wife (Eleanor Parker), who loves him but won't-admit-it-even-to-herself, and their little girl (Patti Brady), who loves, and is loved by, both of them, and will never let them hear the last of it. This situation, which is not unheard of in the home-loving U.S., might have been the basis for a touching and impressive film. Or, in skillful hands, it might have been first-rate comedy. Those who made this version use all the known tricks, and invent a few new ones, for depriving it of both humor...
Delaware's John J. Williams, 42, unheard of politically before being nominated by the state G.O.P. machine, owns 19 farms and a lucrative feed business. Lanky, craggy-faced Williams is an avowed enemy of Government controls...