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...Look (Joan Merrill; Bluebird). The torch record that is putting nickels into the nation's juke boxes. As a result, choke-making Songstress Merrill is looking toward Hollywood...
...grounds that the Southwest had no literature. He forthwith proposed a course in Life and Literature of the Southwest, "guaranteeing that we at least had life," and has been teaching it, to thousands, for years. Gripes he: "I am at war with the damned academicians who have tried to choke all that is native in my country to death...
...Administrator Rexford Tugwell's bright young men who loved to sit around the conference table waggling their Phi Beta Kappa keys. One day the colonel marched into conference, casually threw back his coat and exposed, on a heavy brass chain, a souvenir hotel key large enough to choke a horse. Last week the colonel scored another point, just as quietly...
This was practical wartime socialism with a vengeance. The Prime Minister grew testy when the Communist Party persisted last week in dropping leaflets among persons in shelters inciting them to occupy London subway stations which the Government was trying to keep clear so as not to choke the city's communications. Up to last week a British desire not to ruffle Joseph Stalin has left the Communists free to propagandize as they please, but Winston Churchill had squads of Scotland Yarders raid Communist Party headquarters, confiscate Red handbills...
With his backlog threatening to choke the fast-growing company, tall, straight-lipped Vultee President Richard W. Millar needed new capacity fast. Stinson has the advantage of a supermodern plant, situated in the Defense Area, hemmed in by the high Cumberland Mountains, supplied with cheap TVA power. It adjoins Nashville's huge new Berry Field, with ample runway room for test takeoffs. The average flying weather is better in Tennessee than most other sections. With Tennessee's plentiful labor, Vultee could figure on boosting employment at Nashville from Stinson's present 725 to 7,000 or more...