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...million assets abroad, and the bank dropped hints on how Nasser might more profitably operate the canal. He might pay the company in installments out of his $115 million-a-year canal tolls, and the bank might consider advancing him cash, and is already offering him technical advice, to widen and deepen the ditch for the ever-growing oil traffic...
...Congress really wants to help farmers, he wrote, it should get busy and pass the program he sent up last January, which would further widen the range of price support flexibility and end the present escalator formula under which price supports automatically rise as surplus falls-to build up another surplus...
...Dempsey, manager of the Atlas program for Convair: "The present planning of the Government for ... the Atlas as currently known to us is less than it could be, and if we correctly understand the Soviet accomplishments in the ballistic missile field, the present Atlas program will tend to widen rather than close the gap between the U.S. and Soviet ICBM capability...
...Roosevelt's incredible energy marked him off from the rest of his fellows, his aristocratic tendencies served to widen the gulf. He took private rooms at No. 16 Winthrop Street, a house which stood at the northeast corner of the present IAB. He did this for two reasons--his health was still not perfect, and only damp first-floor rooms were available in the Yard; and he liked seclusion for working on his natural history specimens and his historical writing. Even though friends sought to bring him into student society, he retained his private rooms throughout his college years...
...jagged, episodic structure of Compulsion constantly stresses the factual, historical, documentary nature of the narrative. It no less constantly' proclaims the strength of the subject matter-its ability to vibrate and electrify as theater-and the weakness, its inability to widen and deepen as drama. The cause is less the usual documentary one, that truth tends to be formless, than that in Compulsion truth lacks a spacious enough frame of reference...