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...change its course minutely may mean the difference between a fair and an unfair peace, between peace and future war. My map of Europe would meet all the valid arguments advanced by the Axis countries, and thereby deprive them of propaganda weapons, without yielding them anything which would render them materially stronger than they were...
There are exceptions. Some stations merely hired "disk-jockeys" to ride herd on swing records, in the traditional milkman's matinee style. WJZ, New York, evolved a six-hour, all-musical program in which every word except the news flashes is sung. A chorus, jam band and harpsichord render the station breaks in such senseless jingles as this...
Trouble was, nobody much wanted him to render his service. Since Tobe's noise suppressers go on everything but the radio, he had to try to sell vacuum-cleaner and hair-dryer and clock and fan and telephone manufacturers on adding it to their products. In the depression most of them had enough trouble as it was, without monkeying with a radio silencer no one had ever heard...
...rather the fulfillment of the all-out Make-the-Students-Healthy program. In order to forestall the pending epidemic of ptomaine poisoning, the officials at Lehman Hall have ordered that the remaining supply of chicken pies, family style, be thrown into the Charles. While such a policy may render the University liable to the charge of wilfully polluting a stream, nevertheless, the authorities are willing to run this risk for the students' welfare...
...Engel wanted to know what service the Mirandas & Zelcer could render to justify the payment of such commissions, which must ultimately be added to the taxpayers' bill...