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...Manhattan, a salesman earnestly buttonholed a doubtful customer. "They'll never lick this thing," he cried. "It's too big. With Marshall Plan and arms for Europe, and if we should have another war-God forbid-who knows when there'll be color television? Better take this set right now . . ." In Washington, another dealer moaned: "Yesterday I sold exactly one receiver. Normally, I'd get rid of 30 to 50 in one day." Across the nation, other TV dealers gloomily surveyed piles of canceled orders. Manufacturers, with TV sets in their warehouses, gritted their teeth...
...decision was based partly on the fact that the protest did not actually forbid the production, but only strongly disapproved of it. It warned that "proper polish" should be used...
...that did not stop Mario Giannini. He proceeded to move into his new banks, emblazoning the name Bank of America on all 22 front windows. Furthermore he said that the sale had been approved by comptroller of the Currency Preston Delano The court has no right to forbid a purchase after it has been made, Mario said and the "transaction is an accomplished fact by operation...
Messe's program could not be carried out under peace treaty restrictions on Italian armament, which limit Italian armed forces to 300,000 men and forbid Italy from experimenting with new weapons, possessing such "offensive" weapons as bombers and long-range artillery...
...allotments for Government transportation by 10%, for communications by 10%, for printing by 10%, for contractual services (e.g., law work, special expertizing, etc.) by 10%. Taber estimated his amendment would save $600 million. Not to be outdone, Iowa's big Ben Jensen (R.) offered an amendment that would forbid filling more than 10% of the some 200,000 job vacancies which occur every year in federal agencies...