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...Outstanding among these principles is the one which states that isolationism for America belongs as much to the past as the town pump. Fundamental is our conviction that internationalism and postwar planning are the only medicaments for healing the world's wounds." Those who had listened to Class Orators of not-so-many years past decry that principle, and many others now accepted by students at Harvard, must have noted the change with considerable interest...
...told me . . . Vag looked up into the soft face in the hard white uniform. It surprised him when he saw a black pipe stuck in the crook of his arm and a slow red flow into the bottle. "Open and close your fist," she said, "it acts as a pump. Vag pumped, and turned to watch the red line rise with each motion of his hand. He stared at the white ceiling. Open, close; open, close; "The human body has about fifteen pints of blood," he heard the Bio D man say; open, close, pump. The nurse called...
...Local 83, International Association of Machinists, proved his organizing knack by boosting membership from 61 to 3,600 in four years. But he liked manufacturing better than union-eering, quickly bought, developed and resold half a dozen small companies. Most successful-outside of J. & H.-was Cleveland's Pump Engineering Service Corp., which Jack swapped for 34,666 shares of Borg-Warner Corp., just before he organized J. & H. with tall, bald Ralph Heintz, a born engineer who had some snazzy ideas about aviation starters...
...first offer was some tooling that could be done only on a new $4,000 machine. The twins, who had never even seen $4,000, made their own machine-out of a junked lathe, an old washing-machine motor, an oil pump from a 1926 automobile and one of Ma's old washtubs to catch the oil that leaked...
...child of troupers, Cohan was born in Providence July 4, 64 years ago, when Jerry and Nellie Cohan had $1 between them. At eight he was fiddling in the orchestra for a thriller "so melodramatic they had to pump blood out of the cellar before they could finish the third act." At 13 he played lead in Peck's Bad Boy, He was always part of The Four Cohans-once voted the most popular act in vaudeville. Cocky and conceited, he was a hellion in his youth. "Great actors are born," he said once. "I know. I was born...