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...effect of the Mundt bill is to lump together actual subversives (of whom few have turned up), idealistic radicals, and people who join sundry "leftist" groups for sundry reasons. The latter two are useful parts of society; the quickest way to bring on a "totalitarian dictatorship" is to suppress criticism from either the right or left...
This week, as President Reed set sail for a European inspection tour himself, he was brightly optimistic about his company's next 100 years. Having opened up eleven new branches in 1949, he is now planning new offices in Cannes, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Okinawa and Oberammergau. "The quickest way for other nations to earn U.S. dollars," says Reed, "is to attract U.S. tourists. Because most countries understand that now, I think 1950 will be our best year ever...
...good horse until it tires. Last week, when Tulsa's close-trading Clarence H. Wright, president of Sunray Oil Corp., offered him approximately $44.8 million for his Barnsdall stock, Odium took it-and with it a cool $12 million clear profit for Atlas. It was one of the quickest major in-&-out deals in Odium's history. By contrast, he spent 17 years tinkering with the management of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller fashion store before he sold for more than $10 million a block of stock which had cost him less than $1,000,000. And after...
...quickest killing was made by those who had sold the pound short-speculators and merchants who have been buying in Britain. The merchants had done this to protect themselves, in case of devaluation, from losses on goods ordered at the old rate of $4.03. The speculators had simply gambled on a fast profit. They made it. They had been able to sell short by putting up margins of as little as 25%, thus doubling their money. No one knew how big the short position in pounds had been. (One Briton gave the ridiculous estimate of ?2 billion...
...shortened paragraph, the carefully measured column, the 'punchy' sentence." The whole thing had reached its climax, he thought, in the new Cowles-published Quick-"a news digest of news digests." Wrote he: "One can easily imagine a digest of Quick (Quicker) and finally one of Quicker (Quickest). From Quickest to the nonreading of the news seems a logical next step...