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...Gist of the funeral orations: 1) the U.S. war plant is now substantially built, therefore the U.S. hunger for machines to build the machinery is almost satisfied; 2) the wartime production of new machine tools will leave the postwar U.S. with enough tools to starve every builder out of the business. Conclusion: the industry is firmly, patriotically digging its own grave...
...gist of the matter is that the agency was more interested in previous commitments, chiefly Duke's opening April 1st at the Hurricane in New York, and they had no idea of the urgency of affairs. Nor did we have any idea of their attitude until too late. if they had been a little more on their toes, the story might have ended happily. For example, the first time we heard from the agency direct was two weeks after Duke had phoned them the news...
Newspaper stories of a reign of terror in the schools aroused the B.B.R. to investigation. Gist of Chairman Schantz's report: pupils are misunderstood; teachers and pupils should regularly talk over personal and school problems; courses should be revised by people "with modern ideas for modern students"; pupils should be allowed "any choice of subjects which they feel might be of use"; there should be more recreational centers...
...easy meat for grey-flanneled, hawk-eyed men from nearby Cambridge will be the 1450 women from Wellesley, returned to their studies after a ten-weeks, Fuel-saving layoff, if what Mary C. Lyons, of Lake Waban's publicity office, says is true. Gist of her lengthy (1300 word), report was that her girls had worked hard--"filled seed--packages"--in the experimental interim...
...recognition has been the contention that, while the U.S. might disapprove of Argentine neutrality, Britain favored it. This likewise was a theme for Axis propaganda. The official Information Bulletin of Argentina's Foreign Ministry recently reprinted excerpts from an article in a London periodical about Argentine neutrality. The gist of the article, in the Argentine version, was that everything was all right so far as Britain was concerned...