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...young Austrian heart specialist named William Raab gave himself a stiff injection of adrenalin. In a few minutes he felt an agonizing stab in his shoulder, a choking sensation in his throat, lightning pains down his left arm, a drenching sweat. Dr. Raab's agony was really a triumph. For he had produced, for the first time, symptoms of the dread heart disease, angina pectoris...
Capital, he argues, must have the masses to fight the fascists. Hence labor has capital by the throat, and the sporting thing for capital to do is to lie down, twitch feebly...
...Kansas City, summoned by plane from Hollywood. Willkie glared at him. "Lean back and open your mouth," ordered Dr. Barnard. "Go to hell and take your tools with you," croaked Willkie. Dr. Barnard looked at him a moment, said: "Personally, I don't give a damn. But that throat of yours right now is the only way some 20,000,000 Americans can express themselves. Lean back!" Willkie looked at the doctor, grinned, opened his mouth...
...across Mexico, in order to avoid the uncertainties and tolls of the sea voyage via the Canal. Some oil for Japan was already being transported across Mexico by rail. Last week Mexicans tried to borrow money in the U. S. to expand rail lines leading across Mexico's throat to Salina Cruz from single to triple track. A Japanese dream is of an eventual pipeline...
Historian Nevins believes that trusts are an inevitable sign of industry's maturity: their historical justification is their efficiency. He makes no attempt to sidestep or deny Standard's unfair, savage throat-cutting in its efforts to trustify. But he sees such practices as part of an unfair, savage, cutthroat period in U. S. business, a period that Rockefeller by his vast unification did more than anyone else...