Word: normality
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...week but last week the cruise of the Potomac would have seemed a normal weekend rest. On board was Judge Samuel Irving Rosenman, old friend and political counselor who was with the President when he was nominated in 1932, traveled with him during the 1936 campaign, and was a White House guest for the week of the Democratic Convention in 1940. There were also the President's secretary Marguerite Le Hand and two friends. The President toyed with his stamp collection, as usual; talked long with Judge Rosenman, as usual; fished a little, as usual. As on other cruises...
...Police who had starved and questioned them then stood over the Radziwills to make sure they ate every morsel on their now heaping plates. They were kept from the usual prison exercise period, suffered gastritis from the intensive stuffing process. But the Radziwills were fattened up to something like normal in three weeks...
...Since education is essential to the maintenance of democracy, the N. E. A. insists that the defense needs of the country can and must be met without injuring youth by interrupting normal and necessary educational services. The ultimate line of national defense is to be found in the loyalty, intelligence, health, technical skill, self-discipline and character of the citizens, and not in the regimentation of youth characteristic of totalitarian systems...
Happiest note of the week came from Detroit-automobile sales had broken through "normal seasonal slack" to total 405,000 units for June, up 33% from hopeful 1939. One good reason for this month-end spurt (which made up for early-June slowness) was public suspicion that the 1941 new models might be the last for some time-at any rate they are expected to cost more than the 1940 models. Chrysler Corp., which sold more cars in the last week of June (31,982) than in any week in its history, and Chevrolet, with June sales setting...
...project. Hence the Government stock piles last week were mere mounds. Particularly inadequate were its stores of two materials whose immediate supply depends on the Far East: rubber (30,000 tons; U. S. 1939 consumption nearly 600,000 tons) and tin (6,124 tons; U. S. normal peacetime consumption 82,000 tons...