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...wonder insecticide" that had millions of dollars worth of free advertising, is a very good insecticide. But it will not do everything. In too small quantities, it will not do anything. To eager manufacturers of bug sprays with "flagrant" claims, the Department of Agriculture has said sternly: label your products properly and give accurate directions. To the bug-plagued public, the department has offered some advice...
...next row trunks to his wife in the midst of a Durance musical comedy and says, "Don't cry dear; it's all play-acting," there must be something wrong with the picture, of at least with its classification. It's would be a delusion to think that the flagrant examples of bad taste in "Music for Millions" have made it a poor picture; but except for a scattered routes, "Music for Millions" is quite different from its 1944 model, "Two Girls and a Sailor...
...scattered all over the map. A few months ago many an astute political observer, even among the old-line parties, was willing to concede that the CCF had a good chance of running a reputable second. It ran a dismal third. Plainly the people wanted no economic didoes, no flagrant change in the status quo. Only in Saskatchewan did the party make any sort of a showing-and in that CCF bastion a CCF success was a foregone conclusion. Elsewhere, the people voted as resoundingly for capitalism as they did for King...
...approximate equivalent of a combined Ku Klux Klan and Tammany Hall. Its name: Theta Nu Epsilon. No innocent social fraternity. T.N.E. is an outlaw* interfraternity society whose anonymous and generally hard-drinking members often work in secret to control student governments, campus newspapers, fraternity memberships and prom lists, in flagrant defiance of faculty edicts...
...another flagrant case, the command ing officer of a troop carrier squadron was in on a deal that netted $2,000 a trip, amounting in all to $50,000. His planes often landed at out-of-the-way fields under pretense of motor trouble, so that smugglers could unload under cover of darkness. In another case, a U.S. soldier and four Chinese were arrested in Kunming with $7,000 worth of sulfanilamide...