Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Hjalmar Schacht of the U. S. Revolution was brought to Washington by Herbert Hoover. He was a Texas businessman who had almost gone broke in Depression. By 1940 he was rich again, and the Revolution had made him Secretary of Commerce and Federal Loan Administrator. Business thought of Jesse Jones as its friend at court, the Old Deal's borer from within the New. Tactful and unobtrusive, Jesse Jones did not act like a revolutionary. He did not set up any industrial TVAs; he merely "took what the banks left over." By Dec. 1, 1940 he had made commitments...
...aircraft industry was young, had never been weaned from the Government teat. When 1940's orders poured in, it almost choked to death. Its product had revolutionized the world's ideas of speed; it production methods had not caught up with modern standards of speed in production...
...service. Meanwhile, the equipment makers, tired of waiting, took new business offered by other sectors of defense. American Car & Foundry filled part of its echoing, long-empty car sheds with $21,500,000 in tank orders, which (along with nearly $30,000,000 of shells, armor plate, etc.) almost put its common back into the black. American Locomotive got $38,000,000 of Army orders, paid off $5 a share on preferred arrears. Even Pullman, ever faithful to the rails, took on some arms work. If defense traffic sends the roads into the equipment market next year, they will find...
Wodehouse has been at it almost since Queen Victoria died, does not quite remember whether he has written 40 or 50 books. He is always just the same, usually just as good. Some critics attribute this titillating timelessness to the fact that he has raised the stage Englishman to the dignity of literature. Others have called him an acute social critic, professing to see the blunderings of Munich foreshadowed in the maunderings of Bertie Wooster...
There is the psaga of Psmith ("the p ... is silent as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan"), the fastidious young man who calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in the autumn, sir, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"). In the workaday world Jeeves might seem like an average enough gentleman's gentleman but stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also...