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...under 15, who will get none under rationing.) But every coffee drinker knew that one cup a day represented a drastic cut. The panic buying went on, with no signs of stopping until shelves were bare. In some places anti-hoarders even began picketing the coffee queues-quite in vain...
...Cried the president of the Association of American Law Schools, Columbia Professor Elliott Cheatham: "Lawyers are as dangerous and ab horrent to tyrants now as they were when Erskine defended Tom Paine, or Male-sherbes risked and lost his life to defend Louis XVI from the revolutionary tribunal." In vain law schools have attempted to get army deferments for some of their students, on the grounds that lawyers hold many big jobs in the war effort (notable example: War Secretary Henry Stimson); a law course is good training for military command. Now most of them are resigned to making...
Shirt-sleeved technicians summoned from the far corners of the College, together with Network candidates, labored for three hours, leaving the floor littered with tubes and coils in a vain attempt to bring life to the dead transmitter...
...Angeles a small steel-castings company figures that with 60 steady common laborers it could increase production 20%, has tried in vain for three months to find the men; of its 500 workers. 10% are absent every day, mostly looking for better jobs. (Last week the personnel manager said: "Well, another of our old employes just left us; he was with us three and a half days.") The Lockheed plant has 6,000 stars in its service flag, is adding 300 a month...
...partner in the investment-banking firm of Dillon, Read. In 1928 he sold his partnership (for a reputed $2,000,000). He started his own company and made money during the depression by specializing in small stock-&-bond issues while most underwriters piled up deficits waiting in vain for the return of the boom...