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From the wealth of facts, figures and opinions in the report, one conclusion is clear: if the news were better-written, with more interpretation and explanation, then more editors would print it-and more readers would read...
Farmer Carl Wulle, who has 50 cows on 160 acres near Colfax, explained why he voted for Democrat Johnson. Said he: "I voted Republican last year. I liked Eisenhower's speeches and promises then. There was that Korean mess, and Ike said he could finish it-and he did. I thought he could do something about farm prices, too, but he hasn't yet, and times are getting tougher .. . Two weeks ago I shipped two cows . . . One cow brought me $90 and the other $120.80 . . . That's $210 for two cows. Why, under Truman, you got that...
...foot covering, ordinarily wear cheap sandals made of llama skin or slabs of old tires. For reasons of poverty or prejudice, the Latin American Indian's sales resistance to anything better in shoes has been as tough as the calluses on his broad feet. Only one salesman ever dented it-and he was fictional, an O. Henry character (Mr. Hemstetter in Cabbages and Kings) who promptly sold out his stock after a clever schemer sprinkled the countryside with Alabama cockleburs...
Then, looking at all the confident faces in the room, Mrs. Ethridge gently needled them. "In spite of knowing everything," said she, "Mark is frequently wrong. I don't understand it-and I'm positive he doesn't. In fact, I seriously doubt if he ever knows he's wrong . . . An ironic thing, though, about publishers, is that in spite of having so much confidence in themselves, they continue to read all the time...
...Korea two years ago. Fairchild had developed the plane, and said it had plenty of idle capacity to turn out more. But at the time, the Air Force was looking for a second source of supply for critical equipment. It wanted Willow Run but the only way it could get it-and thus prevent the Army from snatching it for tank production-was to take K-F in the package. There was another reason for giving K-F a contract: the RFC had just sunk another $25 million in the company and was anxious for a war contract to bail...