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...keep on or we might be flung into the river. So I accelerated." Up and up slowly went the bridge span; on and on Albert drove his bus. At the end of the span, Albert, his conductor and all 20 passengers soared off into space, leaped the widening gap and landed with a horrendous thump on the southern span six feet below. "I thought that might start going up too," said Albert, "so I just kept right on till I got to the other bank...
...Europe on their feet. As 1952 ended, they were on their feet, but the legs of some were shaky. The U.S. firmly believed that a free flow of profitable trade between the nations of the West was as great a bulwark to peace as arms. Somehow the unhealthy gap between U.S. exports and imports, that drained for eign nations of their gold and upset their currencies, had to be closed. But is con tinued U.S. aid the only way? In 1952 both the U.S. and Europe decided that a global WPA was no solution. Significantly, it is the Europeans themselves...
...even if the U.S. should throw off all tariffs, Europeans would have to sweat to close the trade gap with the U.S. Their production methods are still too costly, their plants too antiquated. Europe's form of capitalism, with its emphasis on low wages, is hobbled by production-control ling, price-fixing cartels. European management would have to learn that higher wages and better working conditions breed greater productivity; European labor would have to learn to work harder...
Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo, was born in 1860 with (it would appear) a hole in his head. It was by no means the usual cranial gap of infancy but, according to those who had felt it, a "perceptible hole." Though markedly intelligent, he never caught hold at school. He quit at 15 and bounced about such places as Oxford, probably on allowance from his father, a piano manufacturer. At 26, after taking a few places as schoolmaster, he was converted to Roman Catholicism and entered preparation for the priesthood...
Built in 1893 by men who knew the value of that citizenship-Isidor Straus (R. H. Macy & Co.), Jacob Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), and other leaders of _New York's Jewish community-the Alliance filled a great gap in the lives of immigrants. There a man could come to learn English, use the library or the gymnasium, attend religious services or smoke a pipe with a Landsmann over a game of checkers. There mothers, still wearing sheitels, could learn the language that their children were picking up quickly in public school. And the kids themselves could come after school...