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Take It or Leave It. This tight control enabled the cartel to shut off industrial diamonds from the Axis. But it has also irritated the U.S. In 1942 the U.S., worried lest the Nazis grab all of Africa, and its diamonds, tried to stockpile them in the U.S. The Trading Company said...
...Emberg's pocket. Then Red Thomas asked him, 'Where's my dollar?' Emberg said, 'The other boys got it.' Red went in and got a shower handle and put it in his hand, under his glove, and began socking the boy. Red said grab his arms. A couple of boys grabbed his arms and Earl stepped on his leg. Then Red hit him in the nose and mouth until he was bleeding. Then Red told him to take a shower, and Red ate dinner...
...picture has been, on the whole, unfortunate. Unable to make it clear that the Canteen is an all-Hollywood affair, Warner Bros, has gone rather more than all out the other way, and treats itself as if rice were slithering out of its lingerie. But as a grab bag of short turns, encores and gracious gestures by well-liked Warner names (Dennis Morgan, Jack Benny, John Garfield, Bette Davis, Jane Wyman, S. Z. Sakall) and name bands (Jimmy Dorsey, Carmen Cavallaro), Hollywood Canteen is pleasant enough until it becomes plethoric...
...late John Barrymore believed there was only one weapon with which a man could successfully fight a woman-his hat. "Grab it," the Great Profile advised, "and run." Last week, confronted by a spreading strike of telephone switchboard operators, the U.S. knew just what he was talking about. For seven days the nation waited to see if the war's most puzzling domestic problem could be settled that simply. The strike's potentialities were paralyzing. But the women who were picketing the telephone companies were the Good Girls of U.S. industry-the heroines who had stuck by their...
...because you can't force people into virtue. It's technically too difficult to administer." Dr. Johan Beyen, Dutch delegate to Bretton Woods, said Holland plans an orthodox savings drive to sop up inflationary cash, stringent wage & price controls and a retroactive 100% excess-profits tax to grab wartime profits. But most of all Holland stresses what other Governments have ignored-heavy taxes, to bring its budget under control, the step which all European countries must take sooner or later to stabilize their currency. Buying power would thus be brought more in line with available goods for sale...