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...except temporary power to the economic magicians. We must mix brains with our brawn if we would keep our world leadership. We must steady ourselves in these emotional sweeps and keep our heads or the ship of democracy will wallow in this sea of confusion, spring a leak and disintegrate. . . . The whole world is watching us, amazed at the exhibition of a giant who cannot pull himself together even to take care of his own needs...
...Stafford Cripps, rigidly respectable president of Britain's Board of Trade, who looks like a cross between Woodrow Wilson and an old maid, plumped for more public aid to private romance. "Love in a cottage is all very well," he observed, "if the roof doesn't leak." Mere muddling-through in marriage, said he, is the result of unlettered prudery. "We have been half-ashamed of our divinely created animal instincts...
...refused to explain last week what his new Distributor's Guide, Inc. proposes to do for its customers when they start arriving. His partner, Brother William, onetime president and business manager of the Daily Worker, let a little information leak out. They had been busy for a month setting up an information service for store owners. Their specialty sounded like a shrewd idea: helping clients to find scarce items of merchandise...
These hungry oil-eaters promise a new method of spotting oilfields. Hydrocarbon gases, such as ethane and propane, often leak in small quantities through the cap rock above an oil pool. When they reach the surface soil, bacteria lap them up, thrive and multiply. By looking for such bacteria, or signs of their past activity, geologists may smell out their larder, the oil pool down below...
...price of gold would be raised on the 30th, March 29 being a bank holiday. When the returns on the sale of gold on March 28 came in. Premier Soong promptly noticed that the figure was double the average of preceding days. This was prima facie evidence of a leak...