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...probably right, but I am reminded of a legend about President Lincoln during the War between the States. When some character was complaining to President Lincoln about the Northern General Grant's proclivities for whiskey, Lincoln is said to have remarked that he would find out the brand of whiskey that General Grant used and send a barrel of it to various other and less successful generals...
...organization in New York City's Bronx. They were there to tell readers everywhere what went on as U.N. settled down to work. They were there also to subject the proceedings to the kind of journalistic observation and recording which has become a significant part of the U.S. brand of democratic government...
...boom had been touched off last fall when Aerophile U.S. Ambassador Adolf A. Berle Jr. fetched two dozen brand-new U.S. Army C-47s (military version of the Douglas DC-3) south to be sold as surplus property. Most of the planes went to big carriers like Cruzeiro and Panair, whose routes along the coast and across the heartland cover three times the mileage of any U.S. domestic airline. But others were bought by rugged individualists who quickly formed companies and sold stock, sometimes before getting franchises...
...tweedy, confident, 50-year-old president of McC & Co., read their reports in the Olde English decor of the firm's head office, and was happy. Reasons : 1) after five years of war, spice shipments were on the move again; 2) the firm's sales of Bee Brand products this year were expected to top $12 million, do better still in '47; 3) the Chicago expansion-and indeed all the company's post-1932 successes-could be laid directly at the door of his own Multiple Management policies...
...Tremendous [cigaret] campaigns are concocted out of nothingness. . . . Nostrums, patent medicines . . . stomach and head soothers . . . speak their own brand of falsehoods . . . through joke and jingle...