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Recently I heard a young doctor say: "I cannot understand how the American people can pour millions of dollars a year into funeral wreaths, and yet hesitate at giving a fraction of that amount for cancer research." Your article on funeral extravagances spurs me to pass along a relevant suggestion...
Even before the arrival of the recently-dispatched relief ship S. S. Friend Ship to Scotland, a deluge of mail has begun to pour in from the Scots, praising the "tremendous gesture of friendship shown by the people of New England," among them University students...
...felt that the nation had garnered all the fruits of this production victory. In throwing off all controls, the U.S. had bet that industry could pour out enough goods to lick the wartime inflation. However, the cost of living went up from 153.3 to 166 during 1947 (1941 figure: 105.2). Inflation, if judged only by $1 a pound butter, 85? a dozen eggs and 89? a pound bacon, was worse at year's end than at the start...
...most daring and presumptuous thing about Wolf was his ambition to pour all of American experience through the filter of his own consciousness. All his novels are intensely autobiographical, self-centered as no other American writer has dared to be. And yet Wolfe claimed for them a universal relevance that no other American writer dared to claim...
There were contributing reasons. The United Mine Workers' hodge-podge District 50, which tries to organize everybody from shoe clerks to clam diggers, had roused A.F.L. leaders' bitter complaints that it was poaching in their fields. Now Lewis was free to pour into District 50 the $200,000-plus which U.M.W. has been paying yearly to the A.F.L. treasury. In District 50, headed by John's 58-year-old brother, Denny, the' Great Man had a juggernaut to propel, if he chose, toward a third major labor organization...