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...Government, always suspicious of Wall Street, gladly approved the deal for sale of the Inches because it got back all but $2 million of the $145 million it had spent to build the pipelines. Moreover, the financial legerdemain had created something of benefit to the nation. By finding an outlet for Texas gas, the company would cut down the shocking waste of over 600 billion cubic feet of gas a year now "flared" at Texas and Louisiana oil wells...
...Washington, D.C. the U.S. Journal, a glossy 10? daily which sought glory as the only Washington outlet for Walter Winchell, gave up after only three weeks. Cause of death: poor circulation...
...dearth of other interests leaves academics as almost the sole outlet--with the exception of what is likely to be a heavy social schedule--for collegiate energy. If the past two terms have been characterized by an "unhealthy emphasis" on grades, the present term may well produce an even higher level of scholastic absorption. In an ordinary term this pre-occupation might be a matter for concern on the part of the administration. But the Summer Term of 1947 is not and has never been represented as an ordinary term. It is the last gasp of the war time acceleration...
...Moslems use rosaries of 99 beads (for the 99 names of Allah). Conversation strings, with less beads than the religious rosaries, have no religious significance; fingering them is a nervous outlet like smoking, gum chewing, scalp scratching...
...black bread. Fannie did everything big. She yearned for a 30-room house. In later, better days, she frequently brought home 20 pounds of fish for her little family, and baked up vast heaps of pastry that lay around for weeks going stale. In bigness, Fannie found an outlet from an environment that imprisoned her as a radiator imprisons steam. At this steam valve, Billy was nurtured and here he inhaled the megalophilia that has dominated his life...