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...first half of 1948, from $2,841,835 in the same period last year, its current gross sales, running at a rate of $100 million, were off $25 million from 1947. Little thought next year would bring a further decline. To see him through the leaner years ahead, he was concentrating on his Textron brand name products, shutting down his money-losing sidelines. Few textile men thought that a mere Senate committee would budge tough Roy Little...
...them . . . You pay $1 to $1.10 a pound for center cuts of ham because you won't buy the end cuts that I am glad to trim up for you for 57 to 69? a pound. They are just as tender, have as much flavor, and are actually leaner (after I have trimmed them), but your husband makes too much money for you to use them . . . A chuck roast can be cooked just as tender and is every bit as flavorful as a rump or loin tip, though it won't slice as pretty...
Rank's producing companies-all controlled by G.C.F.-were leaner than even his U.S. rivals had hoped. Hollywood had guessed that he had lost money on such prestige pictures as Caesar and Cleopatra. But they had not suspected, as the books showed, that the loss in 1944 through 1946 had been a thumping ?2.2 million. The company's other interests had pulled it into the black in 1944 and 1945, but last year the net loss...
...London Daily Express office during the war, Editor Arthur Christiansen used to notice a lackadaisical G.I. in a typical G.I. pose-leaning against the wall of the sub-editors' room and blankly chewing gum. One day Christiansen struck up a conversation with the leaner, found that he was soaking up the newspaper atmosphere for future use. His name: Sergeant Richard Vesey...
Goring, who was very fat when captured, had evidently first secreted the two-inch cylinder in his navel. As he grew leaner & leaner, his "umbilical cavity" (as the report called it) became unsatisfactory as a hiding place, and he began hiding the precious cylinder in his "alimentary tract" (meaning, doubtless, his rectum). In other words, the No. 2 Nazi used a stratagem known to run-of-the-courthouse detectives the world over...