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Boss Ket's Way. It was back in 1928 that G.M.'s Alfred P. Sloan asked Chief Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering why the diesel was so cumbersome. Boss Ket snapped back: because the engineers persist in making them so. Shortly after, Boss Ket went to work simplifying and lightening diesels. Into his experiments G.M. put $25,000,000, including the purchase of a plant for locomotives at La Grange...
...world trade. For this, other measures are now being considered by the countries of Western Europe and by the Congress of the United States. Until reconstruction is really under way and the present imbalance in trade substantially reduced, a large measure of bilateralism and even of barter will undoubtedly persist. But there is nothing whatsoever in this Agreement that would operate . . . to increase bilateralism and barter or to reduce the flow of goods...
...unexplored and uncriticized, that remains firm and true, regardless of the peccadilloes of its members. The reader is therefore seldom aroused about the fate of any individual Moorhouse. For even if erratic David were to choose the wrong bride (though he does not) or if moody Phoebe were to persist in her cold antagonism towards her errant husband (she comes around), the Moorhouse family would muddle through...
...Many fat girls," says Dr. Bruch, "though outwardly very concerned about not getting married, nevertheless persist in remaining fat because it is a protection against men and sex and the responsibilities of womanhood, which they dread even more than the disgrace of being fat." Even so, admits Dr. Bruch, these defenses in depth don't always work: in every crowd there is at least one man who prefers fat girls...
Carey's move to investigate Communists in the union died without coming to a vote. A six-to-one majority voted to boot him and his followers out of the union "if they persist in their disruption." The steamroller crushed Carey's opposition slate, easily carried Emspak, Matles and Fitzgerald into control for another year...