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...plan politicking And griping and kicking At mystical schemes far away, But we're pinned to an office Our reply to a scoff is The simple demand "Does it Pay?" No matter what others may say-For bisness is backbone and brainbox and bread So we'll stick to our bisness until we are dead...
Long-Range Aim. Dulles' critics like to scoff at talk of retaliation and explain that bombs are no good against infiltration and subversion. In his speech Dulles acknowledged that subversion was perhaps the greatest problem of Southeast Asia today. Then, to show the relationship between military power and political progress, he cited the example of the little Indo-China kingdom of Laos, plagued by Communist-supported "disloyal elements." The government of Laos is "worried, lest, if it suppresses the Communists within, it will be struck by the Communists from without." But, he explained, if the U.S., through SEATO, promises...
...Gasmen scoff at the court position that FPC control will mean saving to consumers. They point out that more than 90% of the costs occur after the gas leaves the field. Phillips Petroleum Co., for example, now sells gas from the Texas Panhandle for 9.5? per 1,000 cu. ft. to Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. which delivers it to Milwaukee for 35?. The Milwaukee Gas Light Co. then charges the housewife a whopping $2.13 the first...
...very easy to scoff at this movie and to laugh at the amount of talent and money Hollywood has squandered on another of its epics. But it should be pointed out that Henry V and Gone With the Wind were both Technicolor epics, yet succeeded as art as well as escapist entertainment. Desiree does neither, though it had all the potentialities: a cast of true actors, a sensitive script writer, and a factual basis in one of history's more romantic escapades. Its great flaw stems from the fact that it was filmed in a wide-screen process...
Most doctors scoff when patients turn to quacks or unorthodox practitioners. Instead of scoffing, Dr. Beatrix Cobb, research psychologist at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, determined to find out why patients do it. The people she questioned, reports Dr. Cobb in the current Psychiatric Bulletin, divided roughly into four groups...