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...most important price news last week was that nothing happened. Plans had been made to introduce in Congress the first price-fixing law in U.S. history. Instead, the whole price-control question was in the President's lap, on the heap with the other defense bottlenecks. The other bottlenecks merely clanked a bit whenever the President stirred; this one smoked. The smoke: inflation...
...this moment the wind blew the cords of the parachute around the doctor's legs and he fell in a heap on the grass, bruising himself on his forceps. When the Nazi saw the forceps, he said: "How far am I from the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow? I am tired of the Nazis. [I want] to be a doctor. Already I have my first examination passed. I know the Pharmacopeia Britannica [guide to British drugs...
...When it becomes obvious, therefore, that in one sport we are consistently among the strongest colleges in the country we should take advantage of that fact to test our crew against the other top-notch colleges and to see if Harvard can't come out on top of the heap...
Boss of this stupendous job was Major General Sanderford Jarman, a hulking heap of energy and ambition who fired railway guns at the Germans in World War I, afterward had much to do with developing the intricate directors which guide the fire of modern anti-aircraft guns...
...days later Judge Patterson relented a little, allowed the pickets to march up & down within certain limits. Meanwhile, dietitians, doctors and nurses did the hospital's dirty work. Since unionized commercial laundries refused to do the hospital's wash, one doctor took home a heap of dirty diapers for his wife...