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Congress appropriated a record peacetime $96 billion, while individual Congressmen tried, usually in vain, to whittle down expenditures. Most of this whittling was haphazard slashing in the hope that it would strike fat, not muscle; Congress knew that it could not really understand the vast and complex budgets of the administrative departments...
...Goodman's tailoring reputation grew (Bergdorf retired in 1903), he added new lines of furs, dresses and accessories. But his real success was based on a personal touch. A man came in to buy a coat for his wife, tried in vain to describe her proportions-until he spotted the store's 6 ft. 175 Ib. owner. "That's her size," said he. Goodman donned a mink, paraded around the store, and made the sale...
...switched westward, made $700,000 profit this year out of trading German steel for U.S. coal. Schlieker now claims to be a reformed character. To prove it, he recently gave Düsseldorf $475,000 for workers' housing. A British dossier concludes: "Schlieker is a ruthless opportunist, vain, ambitious and egotistical . . . With his ability, ruthlessness and adaptability, he seems destined for a leading role in Ruhr industry whatever form of organization it adopts in the future...
...have our rights, God also has His rights over us; and in vain shall we seek our rights until, confessing our sins, we recognize in all brokenness and humility the dominion of God over the course of history and of human life...
...thousand marines who died in Tarawa's 76 hours Morison says convincingly: "Not one died in vain, nor did the 2,101 men wounded in action and who recovered, suffer in vain. Every man there, lost or maimed, saved at least ten of his countrymen as the Navy plunged deep into enemy waters and sailed irresistibly through Micronesia. All honor, then, to the fighting heart of the United States Marine. Let that small stretch of coral sand . . be remembered as terrible indeed, but glorious, and the seedbed for victory...