Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...notwithstanding such beliefs, that U. S. citizens have no dearth of potential Presidents to choose from. Whoever is elected President next November 11, the heavens will not fall, the sun will rise, the nation will very probably not go to the dogs. All this is comforting to many a plain citizen getting ready to witness the hottest political campaign in years...
Prophecy I (1920) was remembered by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Charles G. Ross: "The handwriting is there as plain as ever was mene mene tekel up-harsin. . . . The general service pension is coming. It's as certain as death and taxes...
...businessmen it was plain that Steel, bellwether of U. S. industry, was not gaily charging around among the flock in approved spring fashion. Steel operations had had no "normal spring rise." While production stayed around 60% of capacity, the level of new buying was around 45%, below Big Steel's 55% break-even rate. A whacking slice of production, percentagewise, was still going into already bulky inventory. The story of the situation was written in the price of steel scrap, down to $16.50 a ton (the pre-war level). Worst of all: after a good fall, Steel...
Last week before the National Farm Chemurgic Conference in Chicago, big, balding Harry Straus rose to report on cigaret paper's newest move, to the broad Davidson River plain in the timber-clad Toxaway mountains 30 miles southwest of Asheville. N. C. There, on the day Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany, his Ecusta Paper Corp. turned out its first bobbin of cigaret paper. There the 17-building plant of Ecusta today runs 24 hours a day, employs 900 workmen, turns out some 50% of U. S.-made cigaret paper...
...agreement in violation of the anti-trust laws. Under this agreement, the Government charged, the American company is powerless to sell range finders, gun sights and other fire-control instruments to any foreign nation without consent of the German firm. Although the indictment did not say so, it was plain any foreign nation meant France and Great Britain...