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...doing what it could for the defense in expending its own money or someone else's money, and in doing what it could to increase the output. Our capital has practically been doubled in what we have in this business. We have gotten to the end of our rope; . . . we have spent $200,000,000 and our credit is still good; we hope we will be able to finance [further expansion]; we haven't financed it." > When Mr. Stettinius announced last November that there would be enough aluminum for civilian and military needs and some to spare, Alcoa...
...midshipmen training in Manhattan, enthusiast James Joseph Tunney, the Navy's new physical director, demonstrated his new setting-up exercises, swore that after 60 days a man would rather go without breakfast than them. To officers, Director Tunney demonstrated his special new rope-&-pulley exerciser, designed for the liquidation of naval corporations...
...report from an unidentified passerby to the effect that an unidentified person was seen late last night throwing a coil of rope out of a fourth story window of Adams House was discounted as pure myth...
Huey Long's children pulled the rope; the flag fell away. In imperishable bronze, one arm upraised, snub features fixed in the grimace of debate, taller by six inches than the Great Commoner beside him, Huey Long took his place among the graven images of the nation...
...right." Nash knows his American civilization, and he can write about it like an efficiency expert in baggy pants. His light verse is a remarkable rhetorical invention. Where McCord, a traditionalist, makes his words walk a tightrope of perfect succinctness, Nash makes his walk a slack rope of complete long-windedness...