And this week, that territory feels pretty familiar: I hadn't remembered until I saw it again that Duck Soup, made in 1933 at the height of the Great Depression, begins with talk of an economic bailout.

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Captain, then Lieutenant, Lawson went pretty much all around the world, leaving his B-25, The Ruptured Duck, and one of his legs in China.

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Well, it seems pretty clear that should these changes occur in any nontrivial fashion, you would have to duck to get out of the way of the ensuing economic boom, regardless of the uncertainty.

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