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...press conference later, the council's mild-mannered chairman, Edwin G. Nourse, former vice president of Brookings Institution, was less chary. The scarcity of coke, steel, pig iron and railway cars, he said, "is likely to prevent production from overshooting the mark. . . . Given a fair crop year, there's a distinct possibility that 1948 will see an abatement of the inflation...
...wondrous an array of food turned up in la mere Miville-Dechêne's kitchen that little Gilles; 10, and Marcel, 9, could scarcely believe their eyes. There were two turkeys, a whole pig's head, great pieces of pork and ham and veal, a beef tongue, fruits, nuts, candy, piles of vegetables and a big jar of olives. Because Mme. Miville-Dechêne had done her shopping in snow-mantled Quebec City on Saturday, she had five days to get ready for la fête de Noël-first...
Professor Taylor's fiery furnace for testing airborne Shadrachs is made from a big steel cylinder with a fan blowing dry air into it, past an outside battery of electric grids. The human guinea pig is wheeled in, reclining in a canvas chair and festooned with electric thermometers. The first experiments were rather cautious; then Taylor and his staff increased the temperature in the hotbox until it passed the boiling point of water (212° F). The victims came out uncooked and not permanently damaged...
...sober Manchester Guardian was shocked that Rank's privately owned G.C.F. "could make a heavy loss without any general shareholder of the public companies . . . knowing anything about it." Repeating the charge of Brendan Bracken's Financial Times that in taking over G.C.F., Odeon was getting a pig in a poke, the News Chronicle tartly observed that the pig was "a lanky beast of decidedly questionable value...
...pocket to another. But two potent critics of Rank, Lord Beaverbrook and Brendan Bracken saw a chance to pry out some facts about what goes on inside Rank's tightly run, closely held film empire. Bracken's Financial Times cried that Odeon stockholders were getting a "pig in a poke...