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...Department of Agriculture revealed that U.S. farmland values had increased by $2,360,000,000 during the last year. Sharpest rise in almost a decade, it still left total farmland values at $36,000,000,000 v. 1920's World War I-ballooned figure of almost $55,000,000,000, and represented a rise of only 7% v. over 40% for all farm prices. Most farmers still remember the licking in land that they took the last time...
...without criticism at any time. . . . The remarkable thing . . . is that Congressman Dies should be presented to Americans by Nazi and Fascist propagandists as an authority whose opinions should be heeded." Scarcely had this deft needle slipped in when up rose Massachusetts' young Thomas H. Eliot, to deliver the sharpest attack on Dies the House ever heard...
Until he left Shanghai last September, Alcott's daily newscasts over Station XMHA were for four years the sharpest thorn in the side of Axis propagandists. Early marked by Axis gunmen and terrorists, he packed his tough 220 Ib. in a bullet-proof vest, bought a .45 and carried on. During the last two years he observed the handiwork of Tokyo's German advisers in coordinating stations in Manchukuo, Nanking and Shanghai with Tokyo's Government-operated Station JOAK and its Domei News Agency line of talk. Latest and ugliest trend in that talk: that the Japanese...
...Sharpest summation of Britain's mixed emotion over the war's new turn appeared in Punch. In an imaginary dialogue (presumably written before the Japanese attack) mop-headed M.P.-Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert somewhat sourly discussed a mythical All-Aid-to-America Association...
...sharpest weapon has been its passing attack, headed by ace tosser Floyd Fay, with Johnny Gatsos and Vinny McClelland on the receiving...