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...minnows and plugs into the cold water. Some Michigan devotees, in non-trout waters, were taking so-called "rough fish," e.g., carp and suckers, by an ancient method: lantern fishing with a bow & arrow. Chicagoans were dipping for smelt along the lakefront, and Mississippians were getting ready to "hand-grab" for catfish...
...Senators did not plan it that way. They hoped the press and radio would communicate their case to the public. Then voters realizing what a titanic grab the bill is, would change some other Senators' minds. But the bulk of the stories in the press and air concern only cloture plans, baggy-cyed Senators, and plans to set up cots in the cloakroom. The only publications carrying the speeches are the Congressional Record, and the Democratic newspapers. The first is hardly a mass medium, and readers of the second are already convinced...
...badmen. The mysterious stranger named Shane (Alan Ladd) befriends a couple of turn-of-the-century Wyoming homesteaders (Van Heflin and Jean Arthur) and their nine-year-old son (Brandon de Wilde). Having helped the "sodbusters" fight off a group of villainous cattlemen who are trying to grab their land, Shane just as mysteriously rides off into the blue distance...
...sort of bonus for not selling its copper to Russia or its satellites. With a 12? spread between the U.S. price and the world price, domestic producers had raised their prices closer to the world price. But if copper prices got too high, competing metals-notably aluminum-would grab still more of copper's markets...
...balance it out by boosting appliances to 30% of his overall sales. To do that, he spends millions on improvements. Westinghouse engineers experimented for ten years and spent $790,000 before they got a Frost-Free refrigerator that worked; the first on the market, it enabled Westinghouse to grab bigger sales. In Columbus, Ohio, Westinghouse will shortly open a new refrigerator plant bigger than its huge appliance center at Mansfield, Ohio. Just to get the dealers ready for the 1953 line, Price spent $1,500,000 for a musical to acquaint dealers in 38 cities with "The Greatest Appliance Show...