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...metaphor this, TIME. A curl of the lip to the editor who does not recognize a simile when he sees...
...leaving behind millions of dollars' worth of equipment (trucks, tractors, jeeps, etc.). Camp Canol, at its peak a roaring movie set of a place populated with black-bearded men and an occasional ginghamed girl, is today a ghost town where a lonely watchman lives and only a single curl of smoke reaches skyward in the early twilight...
Completely absorbed in G.M., he talks about it fluently and well, to small groups, in a voice that sometimes has a trace of a Brooklyn accent and a tendency to curl out of the side of his mouth. He reads widely, but except for an occasional detective story, only on economic or technical matters. He has developed the knack of boiling his own economic ideas down to clean, bare bones. Sample: "The whole objective of industry should be to reduce prices. That's what produces employment and expands business." The Way Up. Unlike many another G.M. bigwig, Mr. Sloan...
...Tool. But many a civilian was no better off. They too waited in long lines in railroad stations, were jampacked into coaches, slept where they could find room to curl up. There was this difference, however: for the G.I.s, things would probably get better. (The Army was already experimenting with a plan to have them sleep in eight-hour shifts in Pullmans, thus triple the number of berths.) But for civilians things could only get worse...
Handles. In Columbus, Ohio," Sergeant Mitchell Combs married Madeline Curl...