Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action. President Truman should act at once as President Roosevelt acted after Dunkirk, when the British and French were desperately short of munitions. President Roosevelt then had certain stocks of the U.S. Army declared no longer essential for use by the Army. They could then legally be sold, and vast quantities were sold to Great Britain at approximately 10? on the dollar. We have hundreds of thousands of tons of such stocks today, rotting and rusting throughout the world. . . . Such of those stocks as can be used in Manchuria should be released immediately and sold to China and their transport...
...have been designing masquerade fashions for the smallest part of our population, the idle rich, who step from home to limousine to Stork Club, etc. If they want to look as if they were going to a Civil War anniversary party, that may be all right, but for the vast majority, including professionals, white-collarites and other moneygrubbers, these padded hips and four-yards-around-the-base balloon skirts will not fit into tiny apartment kitchens where the coffee and toast are rustled up each morning before the mad dash to the office begins...
...Street. How did the 16 countries propose to amortize this vast and steadily accumulating deficit? Actually, they said, the recovery program which it would set under way would "reduce the dollar deficit progressively." For example, 1948's deficit would be $8.04 billion; 1951's would be $3.4 billion. Along with a reduction of imports would go an expanding export trade with the Americas and other countries of the world...
Lobbyist Supreme. At 29, Sproul became comptroller, making him business manager of the university's campuses and its vast real-estate investments, and watchdog of Cal's interests at the state capital. As a business manager, Bob Sproul was efficient; as a legislative lobbyist, he was superb. Sometimes his methods annoyed Cal's crotchety old astronomer-president, William Wallace ("Eyebrows") Campbell. Once, hearing Sproul's booming voice ripping through the wall, President Campbell demanded to know what the comptroller was doing. Told that he was talking to Sacramento, the old man snapped: "Well, tell...
Author Morgan's villain buys men's integrity along with their learning, then tries to destroy their creativeness. "The vast ambition of his plan [was] to guide the development of men's minds, to collectivize art and scholarship, to harness them to industry." Like Faust, the judge sells his soul, later redeems it by shucking off his possessions and leading an ascetic life. To prove his point-that individual integrity can defeat collective evil-Author Morgan shamelessly stacks the cards on the side of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful...