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...believe that this elevated brute... sitting on his rump on a cushion of embroidered velvet ... has seven kings of Europe, two republics, and a continent tributary to him when his whole naval force is not equal to two line-of-battle ships...
Plans & Prospects. Industry was ready for the cancellations. It had discarded the notion that a tapering-off in war orders would cushion the reconversion shock...
Most businessmen had long thought that the military strategy of beating Germany first was also an aid to reconversion: war orders for the Japanese war would cushion the shock of going back to peacetime. But in recent weeks they have found that the period of grace after V-E day was a hindrance rather than a help to transition. Last week the monthly letter of the National City Bank of New York said...
...many a company, the V-E day cutbacks had come too late to affect quarterly earnings seriously. For others, excess profits taxes had been a cushion against the drop in gross sales. In top brackets, taxes drop as fast as income, thus help keep earnings steady...
After 76 days of riding on the same trains, living at the same hotels, thrashing out their three-cushion billiard feud in 13 cities, Champion Welker Cochran and Challenger Willie Hoppe were sick & tired of each other. Throughout their ivory marathon, the score had stayed uncannily close, and toward the end the two masters fell to quarreling like poolroom sharpies. In San Francisco last week they finally reached the end of the line. Cochran first erased Hoppe's slim, eight-point lead, then built up a 48-point margin to keep his world's championship with a grand...