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...INDUSTRY LURE is being pioneered by Maine and watched closely by other states. Bucking tight-money pinch, Maine legislature passed law to have state insure up to 90% of loans made for construction of new factories. Loans will be made to nonprofit corporations set up by Maine communities to hold title to a plant, lease it back to the new industry...
...convenient test tubes for observing what happens at very high temperatures. Stars need no magnetic bottle; their gases are held together by their own gravitation. Earth-side gravitation is too feeble for this, so Spitzer's main job is to devise a leakproof magnetic bottle that can pinch-hit for the gravitation of the brighter stars...
...industry was caught last week in a pinch that had the oilmen howling for relief. Instead of the usual 4%-5% annual increase in domestic oil demand, consumption has edged up only 1%, pushing surplus stocks of petroleum products to 723.9 million bbl. by the end of September, nearly 43 million bbl. more than during the same period last year. Oilmen everywhere cut back exploration for new wells, and prices slumped sharply. With more oil than it can sell, Ohio Oil Co. shaved its bids for new supplies of Wyoming heavy crude by 8? per bbl. and Indiana Standard...
...moment to have come sauntering elegantly out of a Gainsborough portrait, yet at the next she is helling about the screen like a Hogarth hoyden. There is Kay in the height of Paris fashion, triumphant on the witness stand; Kay slinking about in skintights, silkily eluding an incipient pinch; Kay staggering under a giant bouquet of sunflowers, hurling herself into a violent off-to-Buffalo; Kay drunk and belching through a lusty diaphragmentation of the Habanera from Carmen ("All ze men, zay want my -ceegarettes"). And always, in every word and gesture, there is the sense of style-the grand...
...hillbilly named Rhodes became a huge celebrity by hitting some pinch home runs. People hung on this hero's word, to see what secret he had discovered. There was no secret. "When, uh, Leo says 'Go up and hit,' I hit," he mumbled...