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...directly than at any time since the defense program got under way. Orders . for arms filter slowly into the spending stream, but purchases for farm products, partly because the Department of Agriculture's Surplus Marketing Administration has long been set up and functioning, can pour out like a flash flood. Half a billion will go for meat, fish, fats, lard - mostly pork. Some $250,000,000 will go for dairy products, another $250,000,000 for poultry and eggs...
...make him over. But Joe Louis, still an unsophisticated, overgrown kid, steadfastly refused to go high-hat. He still won't go to the theater, read books, talk politics. But he can talk till the cows come home about swing bands, baseball, golf and his saddle horses, Flash and Annabelle White Star...
...dense as the earth's atmosphere at the surface, but 80 miles up it may be as dense as ours (because of the moon's lesser gravitational pull), and the earth's atmosphere 80 miles up is still dense enough to destroy most meteors in a flash long before they get near the lower...
Some who had looked away from the blast turned their eyes to sea and saw a great phosphorescent geyser where the 16-in. projectiles plunged into the ocean. Others, who had traded sight of the great flash for what would come later, shook their heads, rubbed their eyes and began to see again...
...recipe for controlling the masses. Mein Kampf told how it could be done. My New Order shows Hitler doing it. For Hitler towers among history's demagogues because he understands better than others that the timing between oratory and action must be like the interval between the flash and the crash...