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...home, not always pleasantly, to Mr. Trask on mornings when he finds himself alone down in the basement surrounded by piles and piles of tickets and posters with three phones jangling at once and someone upstairs impatiently ringing the bell at the booth. There are notices outside proclaiming the glorious fact that the Brattle Hall Theatre is sold out every night. And the hardest part of the job is not drumming up trade but conciliating ticket buyers who procrastinated too long to get the seats they wanted. To turn out a play each and every week requires considerable manipulation...
...professor was speaking of realities and their relation to the real. "It's been a glorious day--simply glorious," one of the Gray-Flannels was buzzing. "Great man, this," the Tweed-Skirt joined. "Gives you the feeling of approaching the more pro found meanings...the deeper...values of essence...
...Glorious Future. Emigrants will pay their own fare (about $300), either in cash or in deduction from their pay after they start work. In Buenos Aires they will be welcomed by the Central Immigration Committee, which will find them the sort of job they prefer and can do best. The first general laborers will get the same pay as their Argentine peers, about $75 a month. Under Perón's grandiose five-year plan, which calls among other things for a steel plant almost as big as Pittsburgh's Homestead, there should be plenty for them...
...that we ought to know about. But I feel in my bones that most of the journalists who might be competent to deal with it would regard themselves as bound by conscience to make the picture either as black or as white as possible: either to show that those glorious creatures, our industrial leaders, are fashioning for us a system ever more perfect, or else that those horrid predators, the millionaires, are fastening upon us the chains of fascism...
...where were all the glorious, benefits that full employment was to bring? The answer was that full employment was only half the prize; the other half was full production. To full employment the U.S. reacted much like a man who suddenly finds himself astride a powerful, rip-snorting bronco, with no bridle to rein...