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...Malcolm Campbell, veteran auto-&-boat speedster, had a new ambition at 61. He proposed to raise the water speed record (141.74 m.p.h.) which he set with the Bluebird II in 1939. On an English lake next fall he will use the Bluebird's old hull with a brand-new jet engine...
...population (approx. 375,000). Memphis was the world's greatest cotton market, the hub of ten railroads, three airlines, and a big and busy river port. It had boomed during the war, and it was booming still. Better yet, it was running just the way Edward Hull Crump-the most absolute political boss in the U.S.-wanted...
Truman and Byrnes have not abandoned old Cordell Hull's faith that the sure cure for the world's economic ills lies in fewer & fewer trade barriers. But, like religion in an age of unbelief, the doctrine of free trade in an age of insecurity is hard to live by. In religion, the prime problem is the devil; in politics and economics it is, respectively, the world of power and the flesh...
...Department I found news from G-2 that a Japanese expedition had started. Five divisions had come down from Shantung and Shansi to Shanghai and there they had embarked on ships-thirty, forty or fifty ships-and have been sighted south of Formosa. I at once called up Hull and told him about it and sent copies to him and to the President...
...President asked Hull and Knox and myself to try to draft such papers...