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...address, though brief, was shrewdly aimed: Candidate Dewey was picking an inviting and wide-open target; he knew that it would take an extraordinary amount of New Deal ingenuity to devise an honest and sense-making defense of eleven years of tax boggling by the White House, the Treasury, and a Democratic Congress...
...tube a stream of electrons from the cathode crashes into the target, impelled by the electrical voltage. Their speed goes up with the voltage-and the higher their speed, the more penetrating are the X rays produced when they collide with the metallic target. Low-voltage or "soft" X rays are sufficient to reveal cavities in teeth or the bones of the hand, because bone absorbs them and thus throws a "shadow" on the photograph. But to reveal gas bubbles or minute flaws in steel armor plate, very "hard" rays are needed, hence a very high voltage in the tube...
Ever since the President named Will Clayton as the Surplus War Property administrator last February, the grey, hard-fisted Texan has been a prime target for left-wing New Dealers. The hatchetmen have accused Will Clayton, the world's biggest cotton broker, of: 1) planning to handle surplus property solely in the interests of big business; 2) freezing out small farmers and veterans in the disposal of Government lands...
...swoop in from the north: dive bombers circle in the sun and plunge down almost vertically to drop their crumps. Avengers roar in low and you can see strings of slim black bombs drop out of their bellies. They make fat, black mushroom patterns along the length of the target. Then Hell cats flash over, tearing the sky with heavy machine-gun strafing...
Boeing and United became part of a huge aircraft group-United Aircraft & Transport Corp., with Johnson, at 39, its president. He thus became a natural target in 1933 when the Black Committee's famed airline investigation began. The Air Mail Act of 1934 ostracized him and other airline officials from the industry. Johnson contemplated retirement but, instead, went off to organize and operate Trans-Canada Airlines. His exile ended in 1939, after the legislation which had driven him out of the industry was rescinded. Vindicated, he came home, became president of Boeing...