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...biggest relief job in the country, the New York City WPA, which had worn out two administrators, including old Hugh Johnson. At that time the red-bordered Workers' Alliance was shouting "Get rid of Ridder" (Johnson successor) and Somervell went in wryly offering a new battle cry: "Sink Somervell...
...There is no use building ships in 60 days for the Germans to sink in twelve minutes," gloomed Pundit Walter Lippmann. "There's no use building ships without providing the means to protect them...
...from an advised to a dictated education. By creating the impression of an apparent breadth and by denying the stimulation of individual choice, actual specialization might result. And added to this is the danger of a too oft-repeated phenomenon, that when a course becomes compulsory, its standards gradually sink...
...National Maritime Union, which numbers its losses at sea in the hundreds. So did men on the production front, officials like Shipping Tsar Rear Admiral "Jerry" Land, and shipbuilders who had suddenly had a strange goal set before them: produce ships faster than the Jerries can sink...
Wall Street's bear market reached such a pass that a Cabinet member asked the President if he had considered putting a floor under stock prices. The President just laughed. But it was no joke to U.S. investors, who have seen the averages sink for 31 months. Last week a flickering Wall Street rally set off another wave of conjecture on one of the biggest financial enigmas of the war: the divergence of U.S. and British stockmarket prices (see chart...