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...Lust-Putty." Hero Bill Gaunt, a Wylie-minded philosopher, suffers much as his fellow men do when, without warning or explanation, all wives and daughters vanish from the face of the earth. A host of domestic chores such as he has never suspected fall into his philosophical lap; his shiny Miami home becomes a filthy, desolate, loveless stew, and Gaunt himself an unkempt, ragged relict in a life that has lost its meaning...
...Exchequer, asked British companies to hold down dividends to combat inflation. Since his order would cut sharply into Iran's royalties, Anglo-Iranian, looking for a justified protest from Teheran, quickly offered to revise the 1933 agreement. Razor-sharp Board Chairman Sir William Eraser, a grey, gaunt Scot who runs his own show, journeyed to Teheran, and a compromise was reached in July 1949. It provided for raising Iran's oil revenues sharply. For example, under the new terms, Iran's 1948 royalties would amount to ?18,700,000, compared to ?9,200,000 under...
...billion in FHA and VA guaranteed loans made it possible for a veteran to buy an $8,000 house for as little as $56 a month with no down payment. Consumer credit soared above $20 billion, up about $2 billion in a year. Warned gaunt, grey Economist Edwin G. Nourse: the U.S. was traveling too fast down the "slippery road" of credit...
Today, Not Tomorrow. Amerigo Mare-scalchi, a gaunt, soft-eyed Communist, was one of the skeptical ones. On the day before last week's distribution of land, I met him as he was drilling holes for rock blasting on a road being constructed by Ente Sila. When I asked about the following morning's distribution, Amerigo shrugged. "Tonight there will be bread at home," he said. "That's enough for me. Let tomorrow take care of itself...
...Rally, Addams shows his full cast of professionally baleful bad characters: the gaunt, string-haired young witch who looks somewhat like a vampire on a vegetable diet; her oily-swarthy spouse who is intended by Addams, a loyal Democrat, to bear a distant resemblance to Governor Dewey; their bloated little boy, who resembles something preserved in alcohol, and a handful of useful extras, including a butler edition of Boris Karloff...