Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Does Anybody Want a Kewpie?, had brought suit for plagiarism against Al Sherman and Abner Silver, whose It Happened on the Beach at Bali Bali was a hit five years ago. Darrell showed that the same eight-note theme recurs in each song. But the Circuit Court dismissed his complaint. Said its three learned judges: although there are plenty of combinations of notes, there are only a few which meet "the infantile demands of the popular ear. . . . Recurrence is not, therefore, an inevitable badge of plagiarism...
...Steel operations in two months soared in a straight line from 60% of capacity to 87.7% (this week's figure: 86.4%). As recently as three weeks ago, steel peddlers were solemnly warning customers to buy ahead for 1941, but last week inventory trouble was a salesman's complaint...
While almost everyone from President Roosevelt down has acknowledged that N. A. B. O. M.'s complaint is just, there was little agreement as to where money for municipal government was to come from if it was not taken out of real estate's well-plucked hide. N. A. B. O. M. panaceas had drawbacks...
However, if increasingly more Americans through reading TIME are basing their thinking on facts instead of propaganda, I can be altruistic enough to withdraw my complaint...
...Salt pork," he continued, "is cheap, common, and easily obtained. It keeps well and is handy to use. It is superior to the usual nasal pack in that it is easier to introduce, and it is more comfortable for the patient, whose only complaint is that the salt causes smarting for a few minutes. . . . Salt pork is easily kept in brine and does not disintegrate. Pork fat does not harbor the parasites (trichinae) that might be present in muscle...