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Pale face glistening in the floodlights, he mugged for cameramen with evident satisfaction, faced an audience of reporters that jammed the room to the walls. Behind him stood three aides, two of them chomping gum. Waggling his eyebrows, in sonorous, sneering, ironic tones he intoned his letter: "Sir, "Your letter at hand. . . ." Denying that the defense program would be impaired, reasserting the loyalty of his miners, Lewis said that if the President were going to restrain him, "then, sir, I submit that you should use the same power to restrain my adversary in this issue, who is an agent...
...Finance Minister Ilsley went to work on the most complicated and rigorous project of Government economic control ever attempted on this continent, he had an interested visitor. Short, gum-chewing Leon Henderson went up on a flying visit from Washington to get some tips on the job he may some day have to do as Price Administrator...
...Charlie Ruggles in a character role. This isn't the old Charlie you used to know: he has thrown away his delayed response and his bewildered expression, and emerges as a philosophical sort of fellow, the hero of the picture. Panamint is a town (not a chewing gum), and Mr. Ruggles is its boss (not its parson). Though it starts rather slowly, with a gloomy sort of flashback, it soon gets moving and hits a quick and gripping pace...
...Peak Egg, an egg substitute, the London Daily Mirror's acidulous Columnist Cassandra wrote: "No hen ever laid egg or eyes on Peak Egg. . . . Take eight ounces of ordinary flour and two ounces of bicarbonate of soda, add a little dye and just a trace of gum. Mix well . . . relax and wait for the great unending public of British suckers...
Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy submitted a plan for saving the Government millions of dollars worth of paper, gum, and ink: cut down the size of postage stamps...