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Talk about "damning with faint praise"-you couldn't have ruined Kefauver's chances more if you'd taken a meat ax...
...Regulation Ax." With the easing rental market, apartment building has slowed to a crawl. Building costs have risen 70% in the past five years, and contractors are not willing now to risk the heavy outlay required and then find no tenants at the rents they would have to charge. House builders have another problem. They blame the slackened demand on Regulation X (they call it "Regulation Ax"), which requires down payments of 4% to 50%, and on a shortage of mortgage money. It. began to tighten up when Government bonds were unpegged a year ago, and interest rates started rising...
...finished product to English-speaking people all over the world. What the editors of TIME consider more important than the physical organization, however, is their policy of not standing between the facts and the reader. "To keep men well-informed-that, first and last, is the only ax this magazine has to grind," said TIME'S original prospectus...
Today, at 52, Beverley is soberer, but no whit less naive, than when he wrote Twenty-Five. Most of All I Could Never Be is far too simple and sorry to stir up any ruckuses; the rest of it is first-rate gossip. The only ax it has to grind is Beverley himself...
...including the one who was officially in charge of Starke's patient in the hospital, sneaked the charts out for a private look at the progress of a treatment which they had not yet dared to try. Says Dr. Starke: "If the sulfa hadn't worked, the ax would have fallen...