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...Loose Talk." To all the charges last week, Standard Oil of New Jersey's President Eugene Holman made a blanket denial. Said he: "We hope the investigation will, once and for all, put a stop to loose and irresponsible talk about this company's foreign business. We do not believe there is an international oil cartel-certainly we are not party...
...words are ill-chosen; our 'usage' must be 'correct'-even though any possible substitute expression, however crude, would be perfectly clear; our punctuation must be 'correct'-even though practices surge and change with the passing of years . . . The idea . . . rests like a soggy blanket on our brains and our hands whenever we try to write...
...Hurdlers Harrison Dillard, Jack Davis and Art Barnard, 110-meter timber-toppers, whose blanket finish may well be duplicated in the games...
...dictatorship," old (67) Socialist Norman Thomas, himself a six-time presidential election loser, shot off a bristling letter to Ike. Main point: "Do you think you will get [the aid of Socialist Britain and Scandinavia] in the defense of Western Europe or of the world by the kind of blanket affirmation that you made...
Most experts believe, says Nininger, that the moon is covered with a thick blanket of meteoritic material, chips knocked off lunar rocks and other loose stuff. There is no water to help cement the fragments together, and the moon's gravitation is feeble. Pulverized lunar rock, he says, would weigh on the moon less than pine sawdust weighs on earth. He thinks there may be a considerable depth of this light debris on some parts of the moon...