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...tattooed natives mix concrete for the pilings of a new bridge. There is money in their pockets for ice-cold Carlsberg beer, Lucky Strikes and Ronson cigarette lighters, all on sale at a roadside stand when the lunch break comes. And the future for each of them is made rosier by the promise of a pension of $7 a month for life for everyone in the nation over...
...studied the light on the church at Old Lyme as assiduously as Monet had studied the rosier light on Rouen cathedral, yet no one would compare the invariably pleasant Hassam with trail-blazing Monet. Where Monet had created new problems to solve, Hassam skillfully ducked old ones. For example, the clock faces in his Church could not have been painted in sharp focus without violating his soft focus view of the building, nor could they have been done in soft focus without frustrating man's natural urge to read clocks-so he simply hid them in leaves...
...first 15 months at the plant, the elephant stayed deathly pale. By mid-1955, losses totaled more than $1,750,000. But Steinkraus was still confident that he could make aluminum production pay. Last week the company was running in the black, and Bridgeport's elephant was getting rosier all the time. The company plans to buy the plant from the Air Force when its lease runs out in 1958, is thinking of adding a rolling mill and will nearly treble the number of its employees as it expands...
...sale by Aunt Dahlia* of a cherished weekly, 3) a blighter who writes poetry designed to produce persp. on any decent citizen's brow. The solutions developed in Jeeves's think-tank may seem a little watery to the highbrow-critic chaps. But looking at the rosier side of the roast beef, Wodehouse is still Wodehouse, and a jolly good thing, too, what...
There is a rosier side to this picture, however. It is probable that the United States will not allow her preparedness to fall to such low levels in he foreseeable future. The rapid rate at which airplanes becomes outdated will keep the industry at high strength, say the optimists. Military aircraft are outmoded nowadays before the prototype model rolls out the factory door on the test ramp...