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Unable to get foreign currency to buy raw materials, factories cut production to 30% of capacity. The big Philips electric-bulb plant at Natanya was dismantled and its equipment shipped back to Holland. The government, which has already forced its citizens to lend it 10% of their currency holdings and bank deposits, last week imposed a new forced loan on property owners. Israel's first devaluation had come when pockets were full and shop windows empty. Now, at the second devaluation, pockets are empty and shopwindows are full-full of tins of canned tomatoes and figs, "frustrated exports" waiting...
...magazine. For the next several issues, photographs of prizefighters, puppies and horses keep appearing on the magazine cover with increasingly monotonous regularity-but never one of the chorine. Does Debbie ever get to be a cover girl? Does Donald prove that he is no mere flash in the bulb? Do cinemusicals have happy endings...
...government in the north. But a few doubters elected to remain with Rhee's government and see what time would bring. During the past 18 months, those who remained have lost their doubts. In Pusan this week, in a coffee shop lighted by one feebly glowing electric light bulb, a reporter talked with a South Korean newspaperman who had planned originally to defect to the Communists, but who at the last minute had changed his mind. Critical of Rhee, protesting that the old man's stubbornness has cost his nation dearly, he, nevertheless, is a staunch Rhee supporter...
...would be enormous "white elephants." But the Army engineers built the dam anyway. Industries took root in the Columbia Basin that could not have existed without the new power. Aluminum companies constructed plants in Washington, each ton of their metal requiring electricity enough to burn a sixty-watt light bulb for thirty-eight years. A tremendous lumber industry developed which also gulped large quantities of power...
...show-stealer is Tinker Bell, Peter Pan's lustrously blonde playmate. On the stage, Tinker Bell has usually been depicted as a flicker of light. (In the earlier movie version, she was an automobile headlight bulb decorated with tinsel, and manipulated with a fluttery movement on the end of a fishing pole.) Through the magic of the animated cartoon, she is a bosomy little vamp, not much bigger than a dot of light, who flits about enchantingly with a silvery tinkle of bells in a sprinkle of golden pixie dust...