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...hope that other upward reaching Mexican-Americans may feel a will and find a way to break through the undemocratic property restrictions which have long prevented them from buying comfortable homes on pleasant streets...
...workers. . . . The least hopeful aspect of our future is that amateurs are likely to be tinkering with our economic machinery. . . . It should be kept in mind that generous, even fabulous, rewards for those at the top are as a magnet that all along has been exerting an upward pull. . . . After all, what you find in a pay envelope is profit and most of the people I have known in my life have been constantly trying to get a fatter pay envelope...
...Total July munitions production was up 3%. For months the production curve had edged upward by minuscule degrees, had fallen well below the ambitious schedules. To WPB officials, the July figures indicated that production had finally broken out of the summer plateau, was once more headed up the slope...
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman lost his wallet. It was found in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, returned with its money to his office. Next day, although the finders' recollections of its contents had been revised upward from $500 to "nearly $700," the archbishop said that there had really been only $30 in the wallet. To reporters who wondered how he had continued his travels without money, he told no secrets...
...City of the Bombed. Looking through glasses, we saw that sheets and drawers and white pieces of cloth were hanging straight down from windows in the face of the cliff. We ventured upward in column, passing along the way a ghostly old woman lying amid crumbling plaster and shattered timber, who stretched out her hands to us, stared out of sightless eyes, and moaned like the wind whining through pine trees...