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...Cannon. His slingshot now grown into a big gun, David will pound the Communists daily over the government radio. He has a staff of researchers who cull the Communist press, mail lies and distortions they uncover to every non-Communist editor in France through their bulletin Defend the Truth...
...reckoning came. John Hartford sat and squirmed in a Washington court while Bureau of Standards investigators recited how they had been short-weighed on 50 chickens bought at A & P stores. John stormed back to the Graybar Building determined to cull out all such flipmagilding. He sat down and personally signed letters to 40,000 men & women in his employ warning them, on penalty of discharge, that every A & P customer "must get 16 ounces to every pound." Moreover, John set up a big board at headquarters to mark every supermarket's quarterly showing, raised hob whenever one turned...
...Texas Cancer Bulletin was started early in 1948 by Dr. Randolph Lee Clark Jr., director of Texas University's M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research, in Houston. He had a sound idea: most cancer patients are seen first by general practitioners who cannot cull all the journals for specialized articles; therefore they should be taught, through short, snappy, easy-to-read articles, how to spot the disease quickly...
...Force, and Coast Guard; the British War Office and Ministry of Information; the National Film Board of Canada and other hitherto inaccessible sources suddenly made 165,000,000 feet of restricted war-film available for the project. Fortunately, MOT had the staff (120) and the know-how to cull and present...
...Sometimes I get sore at TIME for passing up a suggested story or condensing my long account to a few lines. Then I remind myself that TIME culls the world for the news while I just cull Cuba. And I see in the final product the tempering effect of the editor who isn't swept too far one way or the other by being too close to the scene...