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...inquired also what would happen if he was late. That would result in about two with the cane. And what would happen if he threw an orange at the teacher or hit him between the eyes with a paper clip, as in New York or Tokyo? . . . 'That would be Monday night detention for three to five hours, plus six of the best, plus no more football or swimming for the rest of the term...
...Three manufacturers were producing at so much faster a clip than the independents that the independents' share of total output had dropped from 12.5% last April to 3.8%. All manufacturers were putting the pressure on their dealers to take more cars. Many an oldtimer was not afraid to turn them down. But some of the Johnny-come-latelies who climbed aboard the gravy train after the war, and never knew competition, were loaded up too heavily and went out of business. Others resorted to razzle-dazzle gimmicks such as offering cars for "$1 over cost" (special invoices, of course...
With 100 million lbs. of surplus wool, almost 40% of the 1952 U.S. clip, already in Government hands, the Commodity Credit Corp. may have to buy up to 40 million more pounds of wool this year. To dispose of this huge surplus, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture John H. Davis last week asked the Tariff Commission to recommend a 7?-a-lb. additional duty on imported wool. With this protection, Davis hoped that the CCC could avoid any new wool purchases this year, and perhaps rid itself of half its old holdings. Wool growers, who wanted something more like...
...Silverstone, England, before a crowd of 100,000, Italy's crack Racing Driver Alberto Ascari, in a Ferrari, won the British Grand Prix at a 92.97 m.p.h. clip...
...green 24th Division chopped to pieces by 15 divisions of North Korean Communists. On his very first day, he helped with the wounded. He saw the army "doctors operate ceaselessly, their hands bare, blood spattered down their fatigues. No rubber gloves, no white smocks here. Stitch this, clip that, sponge, stitch, clip, saw-faster, faster, faster, there are more waiting." At the front, he was wounded by mortar fire and ran a gauntlet of fire back to temporary safety as the Communists overran the U.S. positions. On the morning of July 23, Deane went forward to join the single tank...