Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Though politicians of the old school had cried vehemently that the U.S. citizen wouldn't stand for this sort of thing, the citizenry, generally speaking, seemed fascinated at the close attention it was getting. Like President Harry Truman-who gathered his family together at the Little White House at Key West last week and answered questions by Canadian-born Mrs. Eileen Nolte, a Navy petty officer's wife-most invited the census takers inside and, in many cases, offered them coffee, cake, or a slug of bourbon...
Spare the Teacher. Once in a great while, Charles finds, a teacher did crop up as a sort of hero. Such a one was Edward Eggleston's Hoosier Schoolmaster ("He's powerful smart, is the master . . ."). But these rare exceptions* have never been enough to brighten teacher's reputation...
Unburied Treasures. Along with his interviews, Nevins has also collected more than 25,000 documents-letters to & from Presidents, diaries, private records of events of every sort. He has also obtained some older treasures. Dr. Haven Emerson was able to produce 30 letters from Ancestor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Chemist William Jay Schieffelin reached into a closet and pulled out the seven letters that John Jay wrote to Major General Philip Schuyler after the fall of Fort Ticonderoga...
Solborg also signed up Armco to install a continuous strip process in the Fiat auto plant at Turin, and to help with a $4,300,000 modernization of a sheet steel mill at Terni, 34% financed by ECA funds. Said Solborg: "This is the sort of thing ECA should have been doing from its very beginning. The only way to impart American know-how to European industry is through people who do it best-American business and industry...
...confused with John Wayne, an even tougher customer at this sort of thing...