Word: lick
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...wrong, Blot," said the Jester, watching the flames lick up a Good Humor. "That's only the burglar alarm in Roger Kent's. The lightning must have set it off in some manner or other. It's pretty damn seldom what happens around here...
...twelve-year-old William Wheat of Utopia. While fishing for old tires, Utopia's Willie was bitten by a copperhead snake. He wrote: "We didn't make much on the rubber [247 lb.] after having to pay the hospital and the doctor but anyway we did help lick the Japs and Germans...
...nitrates were at the end of the last.* The estimated cost of the Buna program now ($500 per ton of plant capacity) is only half what it was five months ago, and oilmen confidently believe that, by the end of the war, costs (combined with quality) will meet and lick natural rubber...
Harried Henderson got a good lick in last week when he told his press conference that he was worrying "about how to keep the cost of living stabilized and not how to keep Leon and his faithful associated 'bureaucrats' in their jobs." Whether he would really carry out his threat to martyr himself to save his ceilings was still a moot question. If Congress makes his resignation the price of a subsidy bill, he may have to follow through. On the other hand, as he cagily mentioned last week, "A lot of personalities are being chewed up around...
...president, George Schaefer. ex-general manager of United Artists, ex-sales vice president of Paramount, resigned. Mr. Schaefer was pushed into R.K.O. in 1938 by Rockefeller Center (alias Nelson Rockefeller) and R.C.A. (alias David Sarnoff), which were both stuck with large R.K.O. holdings. The choice of a salesman to lick production and financial problems roused grave misgivings in Floyd Odium, whose Atlas Corp. was up to its ears in R.K.O. stock too, and Mr. Odium turned out to be right: the studio mess at R.K.O. was too much for able Salesman Schaefer...