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...crossroad of war for centuries past, neutral Turkey wanted of her suitors all the attention she could get -up to a point. The more armaments either Axis or Ally provided her 1,000,000 tough fighting men, the better. But she did not want to fight. Turkey was playing spin-the-bottle with all belligerents. As yet the mouth of the bottle hadn't turned into the muzzle of a cannon pointed at her and demanding a forfeit...
...barked at businessmen: "I've been listening to that line of bunk from you fellows long enough," inveighed against "witch doctors," "chiselers," "croakers." But he himself had predicted the day when "dead cats" would fly at him. Suddenly the glory dimmed, the Blue Eagle wavered into a tail spin, and the sorrowing man with the bottle nose resigned. The Supreme Court ended it for good & all. The General became a Scripps-Howard columnist-by turns for seven years morose, exultant, vitriolic, sentimental, wrathful, lachrymose. Old Army man, he scolded upstart militarists, nagged the new New Deal ("economic pansies"), yearned...
...wondrous are the yarns they spin...
...good for making anything but autos; that was why conversion was not the simple, button-pushing job that some people thought it should be. The great body and fender presses, half-embedded in concrete, are useless now; the great halls that held them are being walled off, spiders will spin webs on them until the war is over. The massive, complex, special-purpose machinery which was once Detroit's pride has been ripped out, carted to parking lots; there the machines stand now, coated with grease against the rains of nobody knows how many springs...
...second biggest & richest of all U.S. airlines-American Airlines, Inc.-was knocked into a tail spin last week...