Word: clams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more mature trade, Goldstein has turned out such pictures as The Egg and I and numerous westerns. But he avoids sophisticated comedy. Once, turning down a script, he explained to Writer Don McGuire: "Don, you dig whimsy. I dig whimsy. But does the public dig whimsy? Not with a clam shovel...
...complacent observer of high taxes points out that all the money somehow comes back to the people. A fresh-water clam in the well-balanced home aquarium pumps through his voracious valves nine gallons of water a day, yet the fish around it do not starve. Rather, the tank is purified in the redistribution. So the Government pumps it in, and pumps it out for the greatest good of the greatest number. That's the idea...
...invested in productive improvements that can make more of the things that people use. But money that goes to the Government, especially beyond Clark's 25% limit, adds to the demand for products far faster than it creates the means of making more products. The clam in the aquarium is no longer performing a service; he is eating what the fish need...
Closed College was formed in 1718 by a group of clam-diggers and oystermen from Mystic, Conn., who were alarmed at the irresponsible radicalism exhibited by the other colleges of the day. Chief among the earlier contributions to the infant institution was one of 654 pounds from Elihu Closed, an affluent London merchant, who little realized that his modest gift would result in the naming of the college in his honor...
...Clam Up. Gould also testified-and showed canceled checks to prove it-that when he refused to pay in cash, Flug and Corey told him to make out a check to one Adrian Roman. On the basis of that and other evidence, the committee suspected that Roman was a peddler for Flurey's high-priced nickel-and in many cases had actually pushed the price up some himself. There was evidence that Flurey would tell its regular customers that it had no nickel, said Gould, then sell what it had to Roman at a markup. Roman would then...