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...separate incarnations, half a century apart, the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., played rich roles in the nation's history. Before his first in auguration, Abraham Lincoln brought his family to stay at the original Willard, which opened in 1847 within two blocks of the White House. Julia Ward Howe wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic at the hotel. President Ulysses S. Grant had a special chair in the lobby, where he used to sit and smoke for hours while scandal crackled around his administration...
...second Willard, built on the same site in 1901, was just as successful. Washington's society strolled through its "Peacock Alley"-the 85-ft. lobby corridor of green and bronze with cream-colored columns. When Alice Roosevelt, Teddy's saucy daughter, wanted to smoke in the dining room, the waiters obligingly shielded her table with screens...
...Willard more recently fell on hard times and was an empty hulk last week when a court ruled that the structure could be converted into an office building. The decision roused the Willard's persistent advocates to try once again to find a way to save the landmark, of which Poet Carl Sandburg observed that in the 1860s "Willard's Hotel could more justly be called the center of Washington and the nation than either the Capitol or the White House, or the State Department...
Much of that growing demand in both industrial and developing countries has been satisfied for the past quarter-century by surpluses harvested in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and the U.S. Indeed, America "is the principal and residual supplier of grain to the world," explains Willard Cochrane, a University of Minnesota agricultural economist. "It is the country to which all countries come when they are short." This year, despite the recent restrictions on sales abroad, the U.S. will probably export about 41% of its crop-at least 82 million tons of wheat, soybeans, corn and sorghum, valued at about...
...political tensions of a decade. United Action Means Victory(1940), a production of the United Auto Workers Film Department, which celebrates the 1939 GM tool and die strike, will be shown along with The Memorial Day Massacre (1937), a newsreel suppressed by Paramount executives for being too inflammatory. Willard Van Dyke's Valley Town(1940), a film showing the devastating effects of technological unemployment, will be screened with Walter Niebuhr's Machine: Master or Slave? (1941), which suggests, conversely, that the threat to jobs and well-being is only temporary...