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...Aydelotte had many homely achievements to report. He had rebuilt the bathrooms in old Wharton Hall, mapped the maze of pipes, wires, sewer mains, heating conduits under the campus. He had closed the college laundry and farm, saved money by buying eggs and sending the laundry out. He could truly boast that he had a good-looking campus, one of the most beautiful in the U. S. In a few weeks its apple and cherry trees and its 150,000 daffodil bulbs will begin to blossom. But his principal achievement was what he had done to Swarthmore...
...single unifying element which comes to the surface in all eight chapters of this book; the author's indomitable optimism. How long it will now remain with him is another question; but the fact that he has it at all is noteworthy. If the world which must be rebuilt after this war is over can number Mr. Laski among its architects, then his optimism will be more than justified. And we shall profit...
...that war Norway sold ships to belligerents willing to pay fantastic prices for bottoms to carry their precious foodstuffs and implements of war, collected insurance from Great Britain on chartered ships sunk by submarines and mines. In the lull that peace brought to world shipyards the canny Norwegians rebuilt their merchant marine at rock-bottom prices. Even today 45% of Norway's vessels are less than ten years old-a record no other nation can boast...
...their hearts men decline to accept for long the law of destruction forced upon them by wielders of brute force. Always they seek, sometimes in silence, to find again the faith without which the welfare of nations and the peace of the world cannot be rebuilt...
...Eight railroads (five use the new Terminal station, only three the Union station rebuilt in 1871); seven airline routes (33 planes daily); 75 trucking lines; 845 factories (textiles, chemicals, fertilizer, furniture, paper, candy); 3,833 retail stores, 809 wholesale stores (annual net sales: $465,316,000); 81 public schools, 33 universities and colleges (total enrollment: 77,282); the South's busiest telephone exchange (636,000 long distance calls per month); 2,500 branches of national firms doing business in the South; a 221-square-mile "metropolitan" area, whose heart and centre is famed Five Points (where Peachtree intersects four...