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Editorial writers throughout the land pointed out that Congress was getting itself out on a creaky limb. If Russia were suddenly to go down before the Nazis, just as the U.S. Army was well broken up, Congress would be in a fix much worse than mere embarrassment. Hitler would then have all of Europe and a big chunk of Asia. And the U.S. would be armed only with the tongues of its Congressmen...
...which emerged from that survey was not all green and growing-there were the dispossessed and the unemployed, photographs of sharecroppers' children with beaten, intelligent eyes staring up from Asiatic squalor-but the general impression it communicated was that the U.S. would fix such conditions, and that in spite of everything the U.S. would get along all right. The U.S. that emerged from that issue of FORTUNE-through the articles, the charts, the statistics, the figures, the quotations from Walt Whitman, the photographs of nice big factories, wheat fields, mountains, orange groves, and reasonably good, independent-looking people voting...
Treadway's nine dissenters (smugly ignoring the fact that most Republicans vote solidly with Democrats on money-grabbing-bills) went to town protesting against "the prodigality of the New Deal spenders" who got the Government into this fix., "These wastrels," said the report, "have engaged in the greatest peacetime orgy of" extravagance in history. . . . The defense: program did not precipitate the present crisis in Government financing, but merely-made it more acute...
...upward. More surprising was their discovery that "if barley plants are exposed to radio-nitrogen, a small quantity of labeled nitrogen compounds are formed in the tissues of the plants." This may well show, says Hamilton, that leguminous plants (clover, peas, etc.) are not unique in their power to fix atmospheric nitrogen...
...while small fry, caught short, bid up the price. He proposed a Government inventory of all coffee, and even asked the big fellows to release stocks and correct the maldistribution. The meeting was unwieldy, and broke up with little done. Henderson's next step would normally be to fix all coffee prices by fiat. That might be good business, but not as the State Department understands...