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...high enough to give the cattlemen room to turn a profit, yet it still blocked runaway prices. But the cattlemen, unalterably opposed to livestock ceilings of any kind, argued that since the spread between livestock prices and retail beef prices remained unchanged, black markets would continue to flourish, and thus consumers would benefit little from the price control. Likewise the steelmen, who had hoped for more, cried that higher prices were long overdue on other types of steel products...
...east side of the Danube, where Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky had been wheeling on the pivot of Budapest, a new battle was announced with a flourish of Moscow's victory guns. This-the Battle of the Danube Bend-began with a large force bypassing Budapest and swinging around the knee of the great river north of Hungary's capital. Overrunning deeply staggered German defense lines built along canals and streams, the Russians captured Vac, 15 miles above Budapest, flung their right wing as far north as the Slovakian border...
...Today," writes his latest biographer, "there is probably no other English man of letters except Shakespeare whom so many people acknowledge as the chief interest of their lives." Johnson groups flourish as far afield as South Africa. Australia; an American Johnson News Letter appears several times a year; more than 100 books have been published in England and the U.S. alone about the 18th Century's rudest man of learning and letters...
Snafu (by Louis Solomon and Harold Buchman; produced by George Abbott) is kid stuff that will flourish at the box office though it often falters on the stage. Telling of a 15-year-old war hero who is shipped home from the Pacific when his age is discovered, Snafu finds its fun in Ronald's thorny return to civilian life...
FurtwĠngler managed to delay the "Aryanization" of the Berlin Philharmonic for many months. But Nazi authorities, through legal technicalities, delayed the payment of the orchestra's state subsidy, reduced it to near bankruptcy. When FurtwĠngler issued a statement that art could not flourish under political domination, Goebbels cracked: "Politics, too, is an art, and what is more, the highest and most comprehensive art of all." An interview between FurtwĠngler and Hitler produced two hours of shouting and led to one interesting aftermath: when FurtwĠngler refused to conduct at Nürnberg...