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...Glorified Messenger Boy." He graduated to the Senate in 1926, was re-elected in the Roosevelt landslide of 1932. The next year, when Democrats reorganized the Senate, Alben Barkley became assistant to powerful, stocky Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson. In 1937, at the peak of the bitter, party-splitting fight over the President's Supreme Court-packing bill, Joe Robinson died. Senate Democrats got ready to elect Mississippi's popular Pat Harrison to the leadership. But Franklin Roosevelt wanted a majority leader of his own choosing. In days of the hottest kind of politicking, when New Dealers were...
...That's Beautiful." In the Liri Valley, thousands of U.S. soldiers, whose buddies had died on the slope, watched. Then, at 9:28 a.m., from beyond the snow-capped peaks, came the first wave of lordly Fortresses. From the mountain peak came great orange bursts of flame, billowing smoke. The muffled crunch of explosions grew like a roll of thunder...
Normalcy in Hollis was the years of Harvard's growth, in resources and prestige. It was the peak of the cycle, the fat years...
...biggest petroleum-butadiene plant in the world, at Port Neches, Tex., was "running," implied it would soon be turning out one-seventh of the U.S. butadiene. Actually only half the plant has been completed. The remainder will not be finished until April. And getting a butadiene plant into peak production may easily take six months, with each new production kink a complex problem that may shut the entire plant for days...
...been a rosy year for U.S. business, perhaps better than 1942. And even on longer second glance, much of the rosy tint held up under a grey-colored fact. The fact: many a corporation, slashed by renegotiation, squeezed by taxes, soaring costs and OPA ceilings, has reached its profit peak or is already over the hump and on the way down. But the rosy color held up generally because, in spite of everything, most companies were still making big money even with the hump behind them...