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...Build Us... O My Congress." "There is a delusion," he said, "which causes America to sink large quantities of money into our American rivers, and that is the toot of a steamboat whistle. Somehow it is believed that if we can only have a steamboat whistle tooting through the heart of the corn belt there will be enormous riches . . ." He was attacking the feasibility of authorizing $250 million more for the celebrated Pick-Sloan development on the Missouri River. Said Fair Dealer Douglas: "I think it is a very serious question whether the United States of America needs a nine...
...confused by it; none consider it a coincidence without meaning. If your writer does not care to draw conclusions or wait for facts, you might at least spare the College any future Chesire cat editorials, which have neither logic nor information, but only a ruddy, ruddy hue. John M. Sink...
...inside the house or outside-or did he just have a privy in the backyard? Did he have a television set? A refrigerator? A furnace? If so, did he use coal, coke, wood, utility gas, bottled gas, liquid fuel, or electricity? Did he have a kitchen sink? Where did he live-in a house, apartment, flat, trailer, tent, boat, railroad car, rooming house, hotel, jail, or tourist camp? If he rented a furnished house, what would it rent for unfurnished...
Weak at the Top. The second great problem was France. Obviously, the on-the-spot defense of Western Europe was unthinkable without France. All turned on this nation, which has shown that it could rise to heights of courage, and could also sink to depths of submission. Which of these two Frances was the free world depending on in 1950? In short, would the French fight? People who know France give a reluctant answer: France would not fight well...
...physicists, says Seitz, must forget their "sense of sin" about the atomic bomb and their feelings of guilt. They must abandon their "one world" pacifism. They must pitch in and help at once, or the civilization they love will sink back into medieval darkness...