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Price control by OPA was never deader than in the bill which finally reached the Senate floor this week...
...Pennsylvania Stations. Despite the hoarse cries of policemen, crowds of women gathered before stores, office workers went as usual to tall buildings. Many a citizen, numbed at the whole idea, simply stood gaping along the sidewalks. By the time the 18-hour ban was suddenly lifted, Manhattan was deader than Walla Walla, Wash. on a quiet Sunday...
...tanks, oil-resistant hose lines, etc. The rest will be what chemists designate as Buna-S, which has recently given road-test performances up to 130-160% of the best wearing qualities of natural rubber. The emergence of Buna-S almost unquestionably means that natural rubber will be a deader commodity at the end of this war than natural nitrates were at the end of the last.* The estimated cost of the Buna program now ($500 per ton of plant capacity) is only half what it was five months ago, and oilmen confidently believe that...
...founded, Harper was a prodigy. Born in an Ohio log cabin, he read the Bible at three, graduated from Muskingum College at 13, taught Hebrew at Muskingum at 16, got a Ph.D. at Yale at 18, was a full professor at 20. Harper made the study of Hebrew, theretofore deader than Sanskrit, a national fad. He started Hebrew summer classes, institutes, correspondence courses, soon had so much mail that the local postmaster's salary had to be raised. Eventually Yale nabbed him; it took Yale's largest lecture hall to hold his students; he had more mail than...
...came to an end four months of "economy," in which Congress had pared a total of about $70,000,000 from various bills. In one week House and Senate undid this parsimony three or four times over. Economy looked deader than most mackerel...