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...Scholarly Lieut. Colonel Borth delivered groceries as a boy, remembered how he used to crush "large firm rolls of toilet paper" flat so he could cram them into pasteboard cartons...
Seven Deadly Sins. To ward off the public beating now beginning to come labor's way, Businessman Johnston proposed that labor and management "hit the sawdust trail together." Both groups, he declared, are guilty of "seven deadly sins": monopolistic practices to crush competitors; autocratic leadership; failure to make proper financial accounting to members, employes and the public; too many strikes, which withhold labor and new inventions from production; violence on the picket line, sometimes incited by management's hired thugs. The worst economic sin, said Johnston, is restraints on production by "featherbedding" and "slow-downing" designed to make...
Most dangerous is the moment just before the kill. With a single swipe of its claws, a cougar could kill any dog or man that ever trailed him. But the big cats rarely learn. While the dogs are being tied up so that the cougar will not crush them in his death fall, their frenzied barking keeps the beautiful, snarling beast from springing. Some hunters have had to pump as many as 20 bullets into the vicious animal before he fell...
...Perils. In the north, Armenian General Ivan Bagramian was hacking away methodically at the Vitebsk-Mogilev line (see map, p, 27). The great German stronghold of Vitebsk was engulfed. Orsha was in danger. And at any hour, the four huge Red Armies idling in the north might roll west, crush the thinly spread forces of Field Marshals von Kluge" and von Küchler, pour into old Poland, the Baltic States...
...plenty flowing through the people's hands. But how could the U.S. go on producing this $187 billion of goods and services, and then consume, not only $103 billion of it, but the other $84 billion as well-the amount that now was going down the drain to crush the enemy...