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...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...
...though investors had bought Texas Eastern shares at 67 times the price promoters had paid for their shares, they bought no pig in a poke. With contracts already signed to buy gas at an average cost of 7.6? per million cubic feet, and sell all it could deliver at an average price of 26.7?, Texas Eastern's backers confidently expect to gross $30 to $40 million a year. If they do, they expect that more than half will be operating profit...
Reader M. Whitney Lee, in his virtuous haste, has missed the entire point, which is that the democratic system which permits (but does not force) him to praise his legislators, also impartially allows Al Capp to poke fun at them...
...deceptively simple to poke fun at Barnes' announcement. Any man who piously asserts his "considered opinion" to be that the "re-establishment of the Comintern . . . and its increased efforts within this country have created a situation fraught with danger to the Commonwealth" is making himself a broad target for board witticisms. But to laugh off Barnes' who successfully sponsored a highly restrictive labor bill last fall, is to ignore a man capable of exerting considerable influence to ends that actually are fraught with danger...
...Taking a poke at the American character itself, Lynd termed it "ideologically naive and slovenly." The United States, he proclaimed, is no longer a leader in assuming new modes of doing things, but is actually the "arch-example of reaction and conservatism...