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...will do with the millions of tons of ships it cannot use or sell. As insurance, which it considers cheap, it hopes to keep at least 20,000,000 tons in "standby" condition. Estimated cost (in the Commission's own winning words): the price of one ice-cream soda a year for everyone...
...also wonder how those ice-cream whites would look after a washing without being able to press them or iron them. Besides the dress uniform will never be as practical as the present blues because after a hectic liberty all you have to do is take them off, turn inside out, fold neatly and stow them away in your locker. Then next liberty take them out, brush them off and they look just like...
Dislocation, Complication. The big problem is: can production really get started under such a program? In agriculture, every new price ceiling has caused a new dislocation; the U.S. has alternated dizzily between meat shortages and grain shortages, between a shortage of ice cream and a shortage of butter. In industry, the problem is vastly more complicated...
...mild December night for Washington-cool and damp. In the big, oval study on the second floor of the White House, a cheery blaze crackled in the grey marble fireplace. Franklin Roosevelt leaned back in his big leather easy chair. Up & down the cluttered, cream-walled room, Harry Hopkins paced nervously. History was expected...
...hundred students will be mostly Army colonels or Navy captains (with 20 years of service) or Foreign Service officers of equivalent rank and with 15 years of service. Said Harry Hill, commandant of the new school: "We'll take the cream of the crop from the existing war colleges. . . . We want them to get the future viewpoint not only in methods, weapons and strategy, but in the broad political applications. We're not going to be war planners. We are going to try for an understanding of war and how to maintain the peace...