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...intellect is at its sharpest between the ages of 35 and 40, according to Professor Harvey Christian Lehman...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill this week tackled a problem on which some of the sharpest criticism of his administration has been centered: the setup of the Ministry of Information. He did so in the course of a minor Government reshuffle...
...unit (33,600 lb.) instead of $350, and an end to pure speculation, or 2) an OPACS-imposed price ceiling "considerably below the current price." Cowed, the brokers gulped assent to the margin boost. Next day pepper prices dropped a cent to less than 6½? a Ib.-the sharpest drop in the four-year history of the pepper market...
...Ambassador Bullitt, speaking in behalf of the United China Relief drive, put the case for Chinese aid in the sharpest terms yet. "We have not yet been attacked by Germany, Italy and Japan for one reason and one reason only-they have not been able to get at us. . . . The Chinese have kept the Japanese so fully occupied that they have hesitated to add a sea war against the British or ourselves to their land war with China. . . . To help China is to help ourselves. They are fighting . . . on what is literally-in a strategic sense-our western front...
...civil rights--more and more, in the name of national defense, the attack has spread to other minorities, to organized labor, to all groups that speak for peace. If these attacks are to be stopped anywhere, they must be stopped everywhere, and first of all where they are sharpest--on the Communists...