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...payroll did not help. It brought the Administration down to the earthy argument that his rejection would play direct into Republican hands. Nine Democrats, six of them Southerners, were unimpressed, voted with the Republicans anyhow. But it was not enough. Raymond McKeough squeezed through by an eight-vote margin, was confirmed...
Though Coach Jaakko Mikkola praised the Dartmouth squad, he attributed some of the margin to the fact that his men had been running less than a month. After the race, Vince Moriarity, NROTC, was chosen as captain for the remaining meets of the year...
Economically, producing sugar is a terrible risk: it requires big capital investment and reaps a microscopic profit margin. This has led to cutthroat competition between the domestic beet bloc and the cane producers in Cuba, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. To protect themselves, the beet men for 25 years operated an intense and effective lobby to get Congress to erect tariff walls and pay subsidies. In 1934 they jammed through a quota system that gave them 25% of the 6,000,000 tons of sugar consumed in the U.S. One of their most cogent arguments for protection: a strong...
Quick to praise Dewey's 1944 decision was the G.O.P. press. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "He [Dewey] abstained from using the information . . . and lost the election by a margin that could easily have been wiped out by the Pearl Harbor revelations, and established himself as a true, self-sacrificing patriot...
...auto manufacturer may calculate his price in one of two ways: his own 1936-39 profit margin, or one-half the 1936-39 industry average based on 1941 base costs plus increases in basic wages and material costs-or on his 1942 model price, whichever is higher...