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There is a bushel of fine war photography in the "Halls of Montezuma" and some suspenseful plot development from its director Lewis Milestone (whose "Salerno Beachhead" is playing down the street). Unfortunately, it tends to deify an individual whom I consider a damn fool and a type of thinking which could stand some careful serutiny, war threat or no war threat...
Wiener stated that scientists, who must always search for truth, "cannot put their heads under bushel baskets and freely accept the orders of others...
Wheat must be selling for a dollar-and-a-quarter a bushel this year, because five dollars is the foe for any of the 29 University Extension Courses offered in 1950-51. English composition conferences and science laboratories bring on additional charges of four and two bushels of wheat, respectively...
...last week unions were running with ladders, hooks, pruning shears and bushel baskets to get the pickings. In most cases just a little shaking of the tree did the work. All the big automakers raced to rip up their old contracts and raise wages. Some 750,000 of its members, said the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers last week, have fattened their pay envelopes by wage hikes of about 10? an hour...
...profusion. Worst of all, programs intended to lessen the farmer's losses from surpluses ended in increasing the surpluses themselves: it became profitable to "grow for the Government." There were times when a corn-and-hog farmer could sell his own corn to the U.S. for $1.35 a bushel, then turn around and buy corn for his hogs in the open market...