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...long would the days of plenty last? Government experts hedged their bets: there were too many unknown quantities. Food needs abroad would depend on the speed of invasion. Warned cautious Marvin Jones...
...appreciation of the "Song of Bernadette" does not depend on religious belief or orthodoxy; it is an emotionally stirring tale of faith and sacrifice...
...Avery as doctor. In twelve years he had changed a $5,700,000 loss (1932) into a $20,438,000 profit (1943). His formula, soon discovered by avid readers of Montgomery Ward catalogues: adding new luxury lines to Ward's stock in trade. Said he: "We no longer depend on hicks and yokels. We sell more than overalls and manure-proof shoes." Meanwhile the number of employes has jumped from...
...that dodge was not enough to excuse plushy requests for appropriations. Said he: "We just had Admiral King in here, and Admiral King says: 'I have to pass it right back to Admiral Home'; now we have Admiral Home here and he says 'I have to depend on the bureau chiefs,' and then the bureau chief says 'I have to depend on the men under me,' and it goes right down to the fellow who is at the [Naval] Academy and wanted the stadium." Out went the stadium. Declared Jamie Whitten: "It takes...
...materially needed commodities must take the place of a struggle for so-called favorable balance. . . . We must recover reverence for the earth and its resources, treating it no longer as a reservoir of potential wealth to be exploited, but as a storehouse of divine bounty on which we utterly depend...