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...retort: 1) After the war, the little 2,500-horse-power reciprocating engines of the Liberty ships can be pulled out, powerful turbines and gears installed, speed thus raised to 15 knots. The Liberty will then be good enough to compete with the battered merchant marine of the rest of the world...
...kicked the dog and carried on. " 'When I make up my mind to deliver spuds,' he remarked afterward to Chapman, 'I have no intention of letting a pomme de terre me.' Chapman took no notice." The Retort Discourteous. O'Nolan is in a class by himself in adapting outworn instruments to his journalistic purpose...
...magazine's dice advertisements because he once bought a pair to entertain friends at home, took all the money with an innocent twist of the wrist, and later discovered that one of the dice was loaded. From an assistant to Postmaster General Walker, the press got the pained retort that this was ridiculous-the only dice he had ever owned had come with parchesi and backgammon sets...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co (Camels) prints testimonials from prominent people, and also claims that Camels aid digestion. The retort: 1) many of the testimonials are written by the company and not even read by the people who sign them: many others are false; 2) all tobacco actually interferes with digestion...
...real attempt to tell the score in the fog-shrouded Battle of the Atlantic, the committee had revealed this shocking fact: 1,000,000 deadweight tons of shipping were sent to the bottom monthly in '42, the losses outweighing new U.S. and British construction. Knox's tart retort that the committee's figures were compiled from "unauthorized and uninformed sources" was reassuring to the nation...