Word: clipping
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...figure on the cunning of Dude Robert Cummings, a polysyllabic confidence man who comes from the North to swindle the Floridians, and stays on to save them. Whenever Cummings is in a tight spot, he reaches to his watch chain for a pistol the size of a tie-clip and plugs his assailant with a Lilliputian slug...
...they should be further thankful to director James Awe. Quite obviously Awe has this musical comedy business down cold. The actors are always audible. Their voices are gusty when necessary and moderated when inuendo is desired. The show moves along at a professional clip, scene changes are effected with a minimum of interrupting, and the sets are good...
Most of the gifts are small to provide for easy carrying in the corner of your suitcase. Prices are wide in range providing tasteful suggestions to fit any wallet and money clip...
...Army was complaining about faulty steel, and Fairless was told to settle the trouble. Fairless, demonstrating his ability to find common-sense solutions to problems, broke a paper clip in half, handed half to the Army inspector and suggested: "If any steel has pits big enough for us to poke this clip in, let's agree it's faulty." The officer, delighted with the idea's simplicity, agreed; most of the steel passed the test. Griffiths, who later became president of Central Steel was delighted too: he boosted this promising youngster to superintendent, then general manager...
...Test of Bigness. Government trustbusters think, as they always have, that Big Steel is too big, and yearn to break it up. Yet twice the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to clip the company's growth, has permitted it to expand and buy Consolidated Steel Co., in 1946, the West Coast's biggest fabricator. Even the Attorney General approved Big Steel's purchase of the war-surplus $200 million Geneva, Utah plant, because Big Steel alone was big enough...