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...holes, these oil companies, unless regulated, can "gouge" the consumer with exhorbitant prices. An increase of as little as two to five cents per million cubic feet could cost the consumer as much as $18 billion in the next twenty years. If the consumer tires of Esso gasoline or Chesterfield cigarettes, he can change his purchases, but the 60,000,000 users of gas for refrigerators, ranges, and heating plants must pay whatever price the local gas company charges. In addition, industrial production, much of which is now geared around using gas as a cheap, adaptable fuel, would suffer from...
...last notes of the Star-Spangled Banner floated up from the tomb, mingling with the faint purr of a jet airplane, invisible in the sky above. Facing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the panorama of Washington beyond it stood a white-haired old man in a black Chesterfield coat. His face was pink, and in his right hand he held a black felt hat over his heart. As the anthem ended, Herbert Hoover, 81, stepped forward to meet an Army sergeant holding a large wreath of yellow chrysanthemums. He took the flowers and firmly laid them against...
Dandruff & Sermons. Dear Charles is a collection of 26 fictional letters from Astute, a frustrated seminary professor, to the Rev. Charles Prince, an ambitious young pastor, on how to succeed in the ministry. Like Lord Chesterfield, Professor Astute neglects few facets of the successful man. "I want to begin with your appearance," he says. From dieting to dandruff, he recites his litany. "Your underwear should also be chosen with care . . . You will be stopping at hotels with some of your more prominent men . . . While I am on this subject, a word should be said about the care of teeth...
...modern explorers will have one great advantage over Tyrell who had to paddle his way back to civilization from Chesterfield Inlet. This year's group will find a plane waiting for them...
...expedition plans to start from Stony Rapids on Lake Athabaska in northern Alberta, and will then travel north via the Dubawnt River to Chesterfield Inlet on Hudson Bay, 20 miles south of the Arotic Circle...