Word: stocking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Republican leaders frantically telephoned Rushville begging their candidate to crack down, make a loud noise, blast the destroyer deal lock, stock & barrel. Once before Wendell Willkie had refused to champion what he believed to be bad policy in order to make a campaign issue-on that occasion he endorsed conscription. This time he was in a hotter spot. Some Republican leaders, isolationists by tradition and anxious to swat Roosevelt, saw in the destroyer deal an opportunity for him to seize a red hot emotional issue...
...that Anglo-Saxons were God's special gift to earth. Osborn was a leading eugenist in the days when many believed that the "unfit" should be weeded out rather than cared for under public health measures which coddled weaklings, allowed them to reproduce, ultimately lead to an inferior stock. While these ideas have occasionally furnished fodder for opponents of public housing, relief, the New Deal, the only places where they are still flourishing today are Nazi Germany and Italy. Long before Henry Osborn died in 1935, a new generation was hard at work knocking them down...
...from being interested in spectacles and rock wool, the country (and its newspapers) became interested in nothing but defense. Arnold and his men therefore took stock of themselves. Overnight their patent quest, without changing its quarry, gave it a new name: Bottlenecks...
...brokers drill four nights a week for home defense; by day they play Spitfire pools. These pay off on the number of "Jerrys" brought down by R. A. F. each day. The proceeds buy new Spitfires. Last week Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, received payment for the Stock Exchange's first plane-a ?5,000 check...
This astonishing performance was particularly noted in Wall Street. There, while fall weather turned brokers' minds to football pools, volume of trading on the New York Stock Exchange hit a 24-year low, and a seat was bought at the lowest price in 26 years. Stock prices, as they have for weeks, stayed at levels disproportionately low compared with current corporate earnings. Main reason: fear that Nazi bombers will make Britain surrender...