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...same day Ralph Assheton, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, told the House of Commons that output of war material had jumped 40% in the last six months. But this report and the shake-up in the Ministry of Production failed to silence the Government's critics. Leftist M.P. Emanuel Shinwell, who calls the Cabinet "Winston's Beauty Parlor," cried: "If the Government believes invasion may come soon, it is useless to . . . draw up elaborate schemes for a more or less remote future...
...betting in London was that the Churchill Government would not see the beginning of summer. And the next shake-up would probably send Churchill out of No. 10 Downing St., if not out of the Cabinet altogether. The Rightists would make a last-ditch fight to have Sir John Anderson (perhaps the most powerful behind-the-scenes Cabinet figure) or Oliver Lyttelton named Prime Minister, but the odds were on Sir Stafford Cripps, especially if his mission to India was a success...
Actually panic, which is sudden, unreasonable fear, may make people stampede, faint, sweat, shake, soil their breeches, have palpitation of the heart-but it will not kill a healthy person...
Estimates of the country's potentially effective labor force reached 71,700,000-except for Russia, the greatest pool of industrial manpower in the world. But to win its war the U.S. must shake society to its depths. How deep is still guesswork. The Wall Street Journal judicially and shockingly guessed...
...questions of debt or stockbreeding. One day she met Mr. Martin in the grocery store. Author Rawlings longed to ask him: "Did she take?" Instead she said: "The pig I owed you for. The one I was to replace-" Mr. Martin put out a big hand for her to shake: "Mis' Rawlings, the pig is paid...