According to the passage, William Howard Taft is an easily-remembered personality because of his trek up a mountain in the Philippines
blond hair and blue eyes
quiet laugh and his bulk
quite interesting biography
high positions in office
We learn from the passage that William H. Taft was unique in that no other man has ever served the US in its two most important posts
he was not offended by the jokes about his size
the US has never had such a huge president
he received a huge number of votes to become the 27th president
he was the only preseident of the US to have blond hair and blue eyes
According to the passage, William H. Taft's size made riding a horse impossible for him
made him perfectly suited for government posts
embarrassed him intensely
sometimes made seating arrangements difficult
made him very sensitive to personal comments
183 THE SHIFTING ECONOMY Each year, countless small businesses close their doors and go into bankruptcy. The corner grocer, the little dress shop, the locally-owned sandwich shop, the bakery, the dancing school, the beauty salon: all are victims of the constantly shifting economy. They are, at times, replaced by other small businesses that temporarily fill the needs of the neighbourhood but frequently end up sharing the same fate of dissolution. More often, the market served by the small business is taken over by a large store or plant, frequently from a more distant place of operation. Typically, the customers of the corner grocery or bakery have already gone to the nationwide supermarket chain just down the street. The woman who runs the dress shop chooses fashions out of tune with the times and gets too old to keep the store open during the most convenient hours for shoppers, who then go off to the big department stores. It is increasingly difficult, apparently, for small businesses to succeed in our complex economic structure based, as it is, on small profit margins and tremendous sales volume.
