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Gould himself admitted he had paid the price (up to $3 a lb.), and was grateful for what he got, whether it was new (Gould's ceiling price: 59? to 63? a Ib.) or "the rankest nondescript scrap." Gould identified the sellers as Benjamin S. Flug and Robert Corey, a pair of Brooklyn jobbers doing business under the name of Flurey Products Corp. Said he: Flurey Corp. disguised new nickel electroplating anodes as scrap ones (which are subject to more flexible ceilings), and sold them at many times their proper ceiling price...
Snorted Stanley Dollar: "The rankest pettifogging I ever saw . . ." He filed suit in federal district court, charging President Killion & Co. with contempt of court, and it looked as if the fight would go on for months...
...Pauker [TIME, Sept. 20] is no cover girl-not even for the rankest Communist's money ... I have felt that to make the cover of TIME should be somewhat of an honor. Surely we must have in our own country true Americans [who] could more profitably take up the time of your capable artists...
...long as the war was on in Europe, UNRRA was the rankest stepchild at the combined United Nations food-&-supply table. It got only what the military and Lend-Lease did not want, and it had to fight to get that. Its allocations from the various combined boards in Washington were merely "hunting licenses" to get the allocated supply if UNRRA could find it lying around loose...
...days, official Washington attempted to play down the conference. At his press conference, Secretary Stimson twinkled to reporters: "You thought you saw the President [at the Pentagon] when you only saw his astral body." Yet the rankest cub reporter knew that something big was cooking, and the rumors began, to fly. And not all the rumors were wild: some of the information came from unquestionably well-informed-although unnamed-sources. The hottest report: Heinrich Himmler had offered to surrender unconditionally to the U.S. and Great Britain...