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...players and, specifically, I have never had anything to do with contract negotiations between Mr. Selznick and Miss Joan Fontaine. I do not, as you intimate, attempt to read Miss Fontaine's mind, nor do I under any circumstances, anywhere, at any time, act as "pipeline" or report "powder-room conversations...
...pegged its latest attack to a report of its investigation of last summer's flurry in low priced stocks like Graham-Paige Motor Corp. (TIME, Aug. 21, 1944). Said SEC: "At times floor traders were the proximate cause . . . in the sense that a spark in a powder magazine is the proximate cause of the explosion...
...others: Kennebec, Upper Mississippi, Suwannee River, Powder River, The James, The Hudson, The Sacramento, The Wabash, The Arkansas, The Delaware, The Illinois, The Raw, The Brandywine, The Charles, The Kentucky, The Sangamon, The Allegheny, The Wisconsin, Lower Mississippi, The St. Lawrence, The Chicago, Twin Rivers, The Humboldt, The St. John's, Rivers of the Eastern Shore...
...very best possible arrangement for her boss. Selznick meanwhile will know exactly what is going on in Miss Fontaine's mind (unless Miss Fontaine is mighty careful) by virtue of sitting in vicariously on the kind of female conversations which generally take place in the powder room...
...less spectacular fashion ammunition plants were shut down all over the nation, at least one of them before a single pound of powder had been made. The cutbacks hit aluminum, magnesium, pocketed the nation here & there with jobless. And they stirred up the fracas of the year between WPBoss Don Nelson and his tough, big-jawed vice chairman, Charlie Wilson...