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Clearness? Your style is too labored to be clear; the boys in the bunkhouse at the Helen Hiwater get madder'n hell when they have to read some of your paragraphs twice. Beansoup Ben and Sourdough Sam send you 50,000 parentheses to use in your next issue. Are you laughing at us? Sure, we are laughing, too, at old cowpokes lecturing you city slickers on how to write...
...Hell. The primary fact about wartime economics is that war tears the guts out of the national economy-invariably, inevitably, always. Each major war in U.S. history has been accompanied by an irresistible, skyrocketing price inflation, with catastrophic results to the peacetime economy (see chart, p. 18). A corollary, with serious implications to the U.S. today, is that to increase actual over-all production is difficult during a war, since all of the production increase tends to go into the terrible luxury of armament, while civilian consumption drops...
...rate of an acre every 20 minutes. When building began, smart Marine sergeants discovered a construction genius in the uniform of a private, first-class. He was put in charge, bossed sergeants along with the rest. Said Howlin' Mad of this uncanonical procedure: "He just had a hell of a knack for building things." Prize building achievement was a mess hall. The first concrete was poured one noon. By dark next night it was finished and men were at table...
...about the networks, accuses them of being indifferent to the public. Says a representative belligerently: "They don't have to sign. Nobody is going to force them. The music is here if they want to buy it and if they don't want to buy it the hell with them...
...stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...