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Expressions of confidence, such as made by the President, are faintly reminiscent of Hoover's optimism, which grew progressively stronger as the Great Depression spread westward. Economists more reputable than the President not only claim they will not know the exact causes of the recession until the statistics are all in, but they have almost to the man refrained from predicting the date when the economy will return to normalcy. As Professor Galbraith of Harvard observed recently, "Generals, at least in the past, did not plan campaigns on the assumption that the enemy would conveniently disappear...
...night the government sent two motorized battalions rolling down the superhighway to Maracay, warned rebels to surrender by 1:30 a.m. At the air bases, hopes flagged fast. At 1 o'clock Major Carrillo and 16 other young officers took off for refuge in Barranquilla, Colombia, 475 miles westward; as a defiant-and unnerving-last gesture, they used Pérez Jiménez plush-job DC-4, with trusted Personal Pilot Martin Parade flying. Ironically, the attacking battalions paused part way at Los Teques and began going over to the uprising just as the airmen fled; when...
BERLIN, Dec. 11--Communist East Germany today decreed drastic laws to halt the mass westward flight of refugees crippling the worker force...
...merger of the two lines would make the united road the eleventh largest U.S. company, with combined assets of more than $5 billion. The Pennsylvania's 9,963 miles of road, running from the mid-Atlantic states westward to St. Louis and Chicago, and the Central's 10,600 miles, reaching northward to Boston, Albany and Quebec and westward to Chicago and St. Louis, serve the nation's most highly industrialized area. The lines own millions of dollars in property (including Grand Central station and a huge chunk of Park Avenue real estate, Pennsy's Pennsylvania...
Next, as the unsavory newspaper peddler at Hollywood and Vine remarked: "Nobody's them Angels." The Angels are the displaced persons in the westward movement. Last year's Pacific Coast League champs, they had a couple of crowd-drawers--a line-up averaging .304, a pitching staff with four 15-game winners, and a roly-poly slugger named Bilko who swatted 56 homeruns...