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...many areas where corn usually would be knee high it was barely ankle high or not yet planted. It could still develop a fine crop or be ruined. Said Anderson, looking at the spindly young corn: "A short corn crop could be a calamity." On the corn crop will depend the prospect of meat next year, for every five pounds of corn makes a difference of about a pound of meat...
This week the Army & Navy prepared to move up their heavy artillery. Scheduled to testify were War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, and probably many of the generals recently returned from Europe. To spearhead its argument, the Administration will depend on General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, the man who, although hating war, raised and trained the army which is helping to win World War II. General Marshall's often-expressed views on peacetime conscription are adamant: he is for it with no reservations...
...Three depend heavily upon "dependent peoples" and areas where they live. The U.S. needs to keep some hard-won Pacific islands for military security; Britain needs other areas for both military and economic security. Russia, self-contained within its great land mass, made hay in this situation by proposing to promise the "dependent peoples" independence and, meanwhile, international control. The issue was finally narrowed down to mandated areas, old & new. A U.S. compromise, protecting Big Power control of strategic areas, preserved some remnants of the trusteeships principle, but sacrificed nothing to the principle...
...sets, too, are very simple, and depend almost entirely on lighting. Shakespeare did not rely on sets, nor of course on lighting, and simplicity, it is hoped, will make for a more fluid interpretation. But the big words of the English Department are out of place here: the laugh's the thing tomorrow night...
...Moreover, we think that real standards of living depend not only on what is in the pay envelope, but on what we can buy with it. The only effective protection the American worker has against so-called foreign competition is not a tariff barrier against foreign goods, but efficient production at home and a decent standard of living abroad...