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...coffeemen yelped even louder. Jacob Rosenthal, head of the Joint Coffee Pro motion Committee and onetime coffee consultant to OPA, called the subsidy "utterly fantastic." In order to buy any coffee at all, he said, U.S. buyers have been paying as much as 3^ a pound over ceiling price by upgrading and short weigh ing - while OPA did practically nothing...
...this point, a frightful thing can happen. The shock wave spoils the airflow over the wing, reducing its lift. The plane's nose drops. Faster & faster it dives. Louder screams the shock wave. The pilot struggles helplessly with the controls, but the tail surfaces do not respond normally. They cannot pull the nose up. Down to earth shoots the plane, with the screech of a siren...
They could do no more, on any question, than applaud and advise. The assembly had no final powers; it was only the first step toward a real Parliament. But Italians took heart. In louder, firmer tones than he had mustered at his inaugural address, Premier Ferruccio Parri wound up the session with a backpat for the "high degree of maturity shown . . . in this first trial run in democratic representation." A scheme of electoral law would be put before the assembly within the month; free elections and a constituent assembly were one step nearer...
Said Grimm: "Let me take my store teeth out so I can talk louder. . . . It's wonderful . . . just wonderful...
Almost stone-deaf, M. Claude wore in court a cumbersome hearing device of his .own invention It did not work very well. When the jury returned a verdict, he said: "Eh?" The presiding judge shouted louder. Still the old man did not hear. Finally his counsel put his lips to Claude's ear, bawled: "Life imprisonment!" The old man nodded. Wagging his head mournfully, he was led away...