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...records and exceeded 8,000,000 tons. But the beet growers, chief of whom is one of the Mountain States' best connected businessmen, President Heber Jedediah Grant of the Mormon Church, are better politicians than economists. Via Senator Reed Smoot they were Washington insiders in the '20s, and via their dozen-odd Senators (most of whom double in silver) they are Washington insiders still. Their achievements: an increased tariff and a domestic quota system...
...several years this has made less than no sense to oldtime Flier-Designer-Manufacturer Grover Loening, famed for his Navy amphibians of the '20s. Months ago, full of the profitable all-freight flights of T. A. C. A. in Central America, of K. L. M. in Europe, of the U. S. Army Air Corps (which delivers engines, propellers, etc. by aerial freighter), Grover Loening set out to convince U. S. air lines they should have their own express-freight corporation. He got nowhere until July 1939, when Railway Express Agency, seeking to formalize its monopoly of the business, suddenly...
...Armistice is a collection of essays written by England's dauntlessly civilized Chesterton between the middle '20s and his death in 1936. His point of view is consistent, two of his premises are peculiarly interesting: 1) that the Allies fought World War I in a cause that was too good for them, and for which Hitler would compel them to fight again-a cause of which they were not fully aware: to preserve Western Christendom from destruction by Prussia, the comparatively new, barbaric overlord of an otherwise civilized Germany; 2) that Christian Poland was the great bulwark...
During the '20s, the Guild...
Into the firm went Big Brother William, Little Brothers Mose, Sidney, John, Charles. To Mose death came in the early '20s, but the five Roses rode on, destroying for profit and progress...