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...Brakes to Production. . . . The reason these (New Deal) policies have not worked, and will not work, is that they violate the nature of the productive system we have built up in the United States. This productive system is built for large quantity production. It cannot be run in low gear. It is a system that must be operated for large-volume production, wide distribution, and mass consumption. When either industrial management or government imposes upon it a scarcity policy of fewer goods at higher prices . . . the whole machine stalls. . . . The New Deal leadership began with the assumption that...
...docks at Devonport Torpedo School. He bestowed no medals because, said the Admiralty: "You'd have to give medals to nearly every one of them-and what do they want with medals anyway?" The King boarded a trawler, dirtied his gloves fingering depth-charge apparatus and trawling gear. Later he helped receive a delegation of fishermen and trawler owners at the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. Said the mariners' spokesman, 6-ft.-3-in. Dan Hillman: "Sir, the fishermen are having a hell of a time...
...Diabetics, who cannot make use of the sugars they already have, must be deprived of carbohydrates; hyperthyroids, who burn up their sugars too rapidly, must be stoked with a much larger supply of fuel. Diabetics need injections of insulin to convert their sugars to useful work, but for high-gear hyperthyroids, insulin may be fatal...
...Bertie," the cook, bustled about the kitchen "fixin' company dinner"; while Mrs. Ettie Garner tended her correspondence in the little office-house in the back yard; in the Garner garage Uvalde's garageman, Ross Brumfield, for 20 years the "Boss's" hunting companion, stowed away hunting gear in Mr. Garner's 1926 Chevrolet roadster-only car the wealthy banker-cattleman owns...
...Pavilion, N. Y., one of Penguin's, inner gear cases broke. In Troy, Dr. Poulter had to stop to pick up some instruments. While Penguin labored along the hairpin turns and precipitous slopes of the Berkshires, it caused the greatest traffic jam New England had ever honked...