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...assets of General Motors, with which to plunge in the commodity markets and manipulate food prices. In two massive buildings astride the Washington Mall-North Ag and South Ag-are eight miles of corridors and 4,844 rooms. In rooms stocked with calculating machines and tabulators, scores of statisticians concoct crop and market reports so potent that they could, if mishandled, send prices gyrating and throw the U.S. economy into galloping confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Plague of Plenty | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

There is nothing risqué in "The Facts of Love"; the title is definitely a misnomer. Oxford Films has made ample use of light comedy to concoct a generally delightful jibe at middle class England...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/18/1950 | See Source »

...Dunster can concoct a few scoring plays with Moe Pearlstein's passes it might win its first game against a Kirkland House team which has won only one contest. Kirkland will be favored however, because of its potent single wing offense which should wear down the light Dunster line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland, Lowell To Play Dunster, Winthrop Today | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...Concoction. "It was more or less an accident," Holt once said, "that I became a college president." The son of a Manhattan judge, he had begun as a journalist, for eight years was editor and owner of the magazine Independent. With William Howard Taft he helped found, in 1915, the League to Enforce Peace, ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1924. He still found time to concoct a few theories on what a modern college should be. In 1925, Rollins gave him a chance to try them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prexy with a Prescription | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...some of its boldness, impudence and razor-keen sense of what the public wanted had died in 1946 with Founder Joe Patterson. To some longtime News readers, it seemed as though the paper had lost the exact formula for Patterson's magic elixir, and was trying to concoct a substitute. Manhattan newshounds speculated that the editors were even poring over old files in search of the missing ingredient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Abnormal | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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