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...those great Americans who have gone before us gave unto us. ... I shall ever be mindful of the fact that if our community is to experience a resumption of prosperity . . . such resumption can only come when ... the proud plumes of smoke from the eager fires of our industries are backward blown, when our forests ring with the harmonious din of the woodsman's ax, when our mills resound with the melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars and scorching summer sun, and when...
...done." Private business representing production for profit instead of production for use, said he, has failed. The people must assume the responsibility of running the economic system. There is no law, declared Mr. Krueger, that we must wander for 40 years in the wilderness. "Many still cast their eyes backward and long for the 'good old days' when Capitalist industry still provided opportunity and an increased standard of living." Comparing back-lookers to dachshunds, he quoted: There was a little dachshund once So long he had no notion How long it took to notify His tail...
Less concerned with laboratory work than with modernizing medical practice throughout backward sections of the U. S., the Fund spent the greater part of this money to build or enlarge 13 small country hospitals (mostly in the South), send visiting nurses to out-of-the-way farms, inspect village water supplies, establish small-town clinics for tuberculosis, venereal disease and child health. Rather than spread hospital money thinly throughout the U. S., the Fund prefers to "experiment" with "dramatic" model hospitals that make it possible "for key communities to take a long step forward all at once...
Though the book is all Helen, it lacks the cautious, great-lady air that chilled Katharine Cornell's I Wanted to Be an Actress. Mother shows Helen blowing up at Jed Harris when he did backward somersaults over how she should say the one word "Hello" in Coquette. "I didn't know this was Euripides," Helen screamed. "I won't go on until you get out of here!" (He got out.) Mother exposes Helen's tendency to misuse words, quotes her famed "Any one who wants my piano is willing to it," to which George...
...sloth can swim milewide rivers. Plants grow on him. A heart, removed from one, beat half an hour. . . . Hummingbirds: there are more than 500 species. They can fly backward. Staple food is not nectar but insects. . . . Fish: bloodthirsty, nightmarishly ferocious, is the footlong, razor-toothed piranha. A school of piranha consumed a whole sheep in 2½ minutes flat. . . . Domestic note: Boa constrictors are used as pets. They are excellent ratters...