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...country has produced ..." Patton knew that Ike had saved his hide more than once, wrote to him after the famous soldier-slapping incident: "I am at a loss to find words with which to express my chagrin and grief at having given you, a man to whom I owe everything and for whom I would gladly lay down my life, cause to be displeased with...
...every one of the new Democratic Representatives in the 81st Congress owed as much to Harry Truman directly as did Cecil White. But most of them did owe their election to the issues which the President raised in his attacks on the 80th Congress. A few unknowns, who thought they had no chance to win, were swept in. Some, who did not subscribe to all of Harry Truman's campaign promises, were elected because of local issues. But a composite of the new congressional faces showed a political complexion much like Harry Truman's. Representative faces...
...record crowd of 34,369 fans saw the pro football Green Bay Packers play like dispirited hired hands. Two days later, Coach Curly Lambeau fined the entire squad half a week's salary. Said Lambeau: "Sunday's game was awful. We owe an apology to the people who paid good money...
...Washington. He regarded his invention as "just a side issue" and agreed to let Thomas A. Edison's name be attached to it for commercial reasons (but Armat got rich on the patent rights). Last March Hollywood awarded him a special Oscar for the "debt we all owe...
Though IAPI (pronounced "yappy") is the world's biggest state trading agency outside Russia, the report was less than a page long. It was unsigned, apparently unaudited. There was no statement of goods on hand. Though European soft-currency countries owe IAPI $732 million for food and other products bought on tick, the only reference to this was a $52 million item called "operations with foreign governments." Finally, without offering any proof, IAPI claimed a thumping 1947 profit of $259 million. "It makes no sense to me," said one Buenos Aires bank manager last week. "It looks...