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...Outside is a sign, 'What Hath God Wrought?' It is to remind you what God hath wrought. Friends everywhere have helped. They felt we were building a Christian citizenship here in the hills. A Middlesboro [Ky.] Jew gave a substantial check. Catholics in Middlesboro and Pineville have helped...
Anyone with any sense at all knows that if we had not gone into Iceland, the Nazis would have, and would have wrought havoc by air attacks on our North Atlantic shipping routes...
...Ready Squads." The Russians, who well remember the havoc wrought by Hitler's Panzer divisions, have worked mightily at tank production, now have more tanks in service than the rest of the world's armies combined. In Germany alone, the Reds have at least 4,400 tanks, and in general they are better than any now in regular use by U.S. armored divisions. Most of the tanks in East Germany are 33-ton T-34s null gun), the types used in the Communist attack in Korea...
...Senate, a citizen could note the lasting effects of the social revolution wrought by the New Deal. Up for debate was a bill which would nearly double social-security benefits (from the present average $26 a month to $48), extend coverage to 10 million more Americans, and provide increased payroll deductions beginning in 1956. But the issue which seemed revolutionary in 1935 last week did not even start a cloakroom argument. If there was objection, it was that the coverage was too spotty; Republicans and Democrats agreed on a $25,000 study of a future pay-as-you-go system...
...Machines. The C.E.D. report, Drepared by a subcommittee headed by United Airlines' William A. Patterson, was not only a study of wages; it was also a common-sense blueprint to show low a socially responsible U.S. capitalism could achieve the full benefits of the industrial revolution it had wrought...