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Until Pandora, in the person of Adolf Hitler, pried open the Russian box, its contents were a general mystery. But now that the lid is off, all sorts of surprises have popped...
...Salt Lake City vaudeville house where she was billed as "The Blonde Who Spiked the Guns of General Franco's Firing Squad," Miss Rogers commented: "I knew the lid was going to blow off this thing some day. . . . I'm the best damned woman violinist in show business, and I don't need Dahl to sell a violin solo...
...what the purchasing agents thought and felt depended to a large extent whether the U.S. would have inflation or avoid it. If they decided that inflation was coming, and began an all-out spending spree, only drastic Government inventory control could keep the lid...
...parity payments, plus soil-conservation payments in cash. He did stipulate, as his understanding of the bill's "obscurity," that "under no circumstances should the sum of these three exceed parity." No matter what the President might now say or do, Congressmen had received a clear direction: the lid was off. Anything goes. Franklin Roosevelt had intoned the benediction over economy's grave...
...addition economic collaboration was well under way. A barter system for foodstuffs and many other commodities was doing big business between France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-and Hungary and Rumania were reported about to join up. With a lid artificially clamped on the prices of French securities, Germans were buying heavily into French banks and business houses. It was announced that French and German insurance companies would shortly fix a standard rate schedule among themselves...