Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...preparations for Christmas went on as usual. In the east end of the second-floor corridor stood the small family tree, decorated with ornaments handed down via attic trunk from one Christmas to the next. And, as in the past, the President's plans called for the familiar, pleasant ritual of the season-the wishing of Merry Christmas to the members of his office staff, the scene in which the President and his wife receive the members of the White House staff and their children, the lighting of the Christmas tree outside the White House on Christmas...
...spectacular. Flat and brushy, lying near the unpredictable Gulf, it could easily be overlooked by a traveler, its latent wealth unsuspected. Texans say that if it lay in Europe it would be called the Desolate Plains, or something equally melodramatic, and travelers would shun it, just as the pleasant fir woods of Germany are known as the Black Forest, the abode of witches and evil spirits. But, being in Texas, it is irrigated, scraped over, dug into with an energetic, hopeful, optimistic curiosity. As a result the land produces oil, grapefruit, spinach, oranges, carrots, cantaloupes, tomatoes, turkeys, cattle...
...worst that could be said about U. S. Business in 1940 was that the defense boom took businessmen by surprise. It was not their boom, and they joined it with reluctance. The last time the economic controls shifted to Washington, the aftermath was not pleasant. In 1940, they prudently remembered...
...expected A or B. Anchored only to the graphs on the blackboard, Ec 1 floats freely in the realm of abstractions. If, as must be supposed, the course was intended to furnish a solid theoretical basis for the study of applied economics, it can only be regarded as a pleasant but thorough failure...
There are some 400,000 "little businesses" in the U. S. (assets of $1,000,060 or less). Many of the odds & ends they make are vital to the U. S. economy; many are merely pleasant. For many of these little businesses World War II has been a shot in the arm. Blockade and counter-blockade have cut off scores of Europe's odds & ends, and U. S. little business has rushed in to fill the demand. Some owe a new product, some their whole business...