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...thirds of the proposed synthetic-rubber plants, his office announced, are already in operation or ready for operation. The rest will have been completed by late October. Two-fisted Bill Jeffers, railroad man for 53 of his 67 years, carefully explained that he was not leaving Washington in a huff. The Union Pacific, said he, "is a hell of a big railroad which needs my attention...
...week Watsonites journeyed to Washington, gave Harrison Spangler the full hypodermic. He did not react. The meeting was distinctly cool. To a hint from Harrison Spangler that Watson is trying to split the G.O.P., Watson replied that he only wanted to help the G.O.P. win an election. With a huff & puff, Mr. Spangler informed the R.P.P.A. that he would be glad to submit their proposals to the Republican Postwar Advisory Council (formed by Mr. Spangler last May), which meets next month at Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island, Mich...
Close by, two buglers play taps. The Chaplains put on their caps and the graveyard bulldozer huff-puffs again, pushing mounds of cold Attu earth over the khaki-clad bodies of eight U.S. soldiers...
...years ago even so small a controversy would probably have sent Columbia Pictures scurrying off in a huff. For years Hollywood looked upon radio as a poor relation in the field of showmanship, did not consider it seriously as an advertising medium. But World War II has begun to change all that...
Immediate result of this treatment was that the Cuban sugar delegation went home in a huff, Cuba's National Association of Sugar Growers angrily rejected the U.S. offer, and grinding on the new crop (for which Cuban growers have already gone heavily into debt) was postponed until mid-February-the latest ever. About the only hope Cuba has left is that the Good Neighbor principle will make the U.S. revise its offer...