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...faculties, 'shaped for heroic feats, despise the pliability, the intrigues and the parade through which most brilliant careers are achieved in peacetime. . . . He would be condemned to emasculation or corruption, if he lacked the grim impulse of ambition to spur him on ... the hope of playing a great role in great events...
...Japs should succeed in what they were attempting, the only new route for the moment seemed to be the tortuous one up the Brahmaputra by boat, then by transshipment to a spur railroad line, and thence to the Assam airfields...
Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who mortally fears a U.S. oil shortage, wanted a boost in crude oil prices in order to spur production. Economic Stabilizer Fred M. Vinson, fearful that this might squeeze about $500,000,000 more from the U.S. consumer, flatly refused. Still Mr. Vinson agreed that the price of oil in many a U.S. field is too low. Last week, OPA came up with its routine solution: a subsidy for the oil industry. Estimated cost per year...
Some thought that there might be another spur to London's rapprochement with Algiers: a traditional, power-political desire to prepare a counterbloc in western Europe, just in case Russia establishes a rival block in the east (see p. 11). London dispatches reported that Britain and the U.S. will soon sign agreements providing for administration of liberated Norwegian, Netherlands and Belgian territories by their Governments in Exile...
...Manhattan in 1892, he had as assets a rich baritone and a modest training in the rudiments of music. He got a scholarship at the National Conservatory of Music, where he studied under the late great Antonin Dvorak. Burleigh's singing of spirituals was Dvorak's chief spur toward the New World Symphony. Burleigh won his St. George's post against 59 other applicants, all white. The deciding vote was cast by the church's senior warden, J. P. Morgan the elder. Morgan later arranged to have Burleigh sing before Edward VII of Britain. When...