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...Agent John Robert Powers when he gave one of his models a hatbox he happened to have in his office (having just bought a new hat) so that she could carry sundry necessaries with her on her rounds. Usual contents of a model's hat box: make-up kit, extra dresses, shoes, stockings or slips...
...decline has been moderate," insisted Harry Truman. So far there had been no speculators' spree, no sudden upsurge of personal debt, none of the familiar warning signals of an economic smashup. But in this "transition period," he admitted, there was no longer any point to the whole kit & caboodle of anti-inflation controls which he had been demanding. Nor was there, he acknowledged, any longer a possibility of the $4 billion tax increase he had asked for last January...
Each Saturday and Sunday for the past three months, a little procession has arrived punctually at 6:30 p.m. at RCA Victor's midtown Manhattan recording studios. The routine never varies. The youngest, Mlle. Denise Restout, goes straight to the harpsichord, yanks open her tool kit, and starts tuning. The huskiest, Mlle. Elsa Schunicke, carries the pillows and the hamper, loaded with sandwiches, a vacuum jug of coffee, and a supply of specially blended horehound drops. Then, her hands folded before her, and her craggy features blissfully composed, Mme. Wanda Landowska herself floats in like a tiny wraith, nods...
...says, can make the test as soon as he has the two reagents handy. Dr. Richardson will not tell what they are until he publishes his report in a medical magazine. His reason: he does not want some one pharmaceutical house stealing a march and rushing out with a kit to get rich quick on his quick test...
Part of the Bargain. He was not a prisoner long. The Spaniards had neglected to take away his escape kit, which contained a small, highly tempered saw. "The bars in that jail were brass," Chuck says. "The saw ate right through them." He and his pals "fooled around Spain for a while, swiping chickens." Then the British gathered them up and forwarded them to England. "The British fed us good," says Chuck, "I gained 25 pounds." Right off, he shot down five Germans...