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Although some of these deductions from the sugar available to the U.S. can properly be charged to war, others are chargeable to politics. The U.S.'s annual sugar quotas have been political compromises to appease the various sugar lobbies which infest the Capitol...
Booming Washington knows no boom like the Army's. Its 24,000 clerks infest office buildings in every cranny of the capital. For major bureau headquarters it has had to get along with the Munitions Building, a temporary warren built during World War I. Long ago a piece of land next to the Naval Hospital was earmarked for a great new War Department building, and the first building was already complete and occupied. But last month, impatient to get all its workers under one roof, the War Department got Congressional approval for a $35,000,000, 35-acre structure...
...central role is carefully delincated and Welles is equally convincing as a bald, broken old man as he is playing the young Kane just entering the publishing business. The other players, all experienced actors from Welle's Mercury company rather than the good-looking histrionic greenhorus who infest most Hollywood productions, take full advantage of the meaty supporting roles provided for them by a hard-hitting script...
...gentlemen of the dance committee are charging a pretty stiff admission fee, particularly for stags. Evidently they intend to discourage jazz lovers who may wish to slip in just to hear the Basie musicale without engaging in any female entanglements, as well as the avowed wolves who inevitably infest such soirees. The Count may no longer be the wild and woolly nobleman he was in the days when Herschal Evans and Lester Young were attempting to outdo each other on the tenor saxophone, but he still packs more punch than any band that has reared its head around here this...
...little humor. It told little about Sculptor Epstein and his dramatic rise from Manhattan's lower East Side, much about his work. Getting back at his critics, Epstein flayed the "wretched lot of logrollers, schemers, sharks, opportunists, profiteers, snobs, parasites, sycophants, camp followers, social climbers and . . . fourflushers [who] infest the world of art-this jungle into which the artist is forced periodically to bring his work and live...