Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After each J.C.S. meeting, an officer and a non-com from a special Pentagon nine-man destruction unit empty the secret wastebaskets into a paper bag. They also tear off the scratch papers on the J.C.S. pads, removing the top three or four sheets which, while they probably have no writing on them, do have impressions from the sharp pencils. All this material is catalogued, put in safes for ten days. Then it is taken to one of the basement incinerators in the Pentagon and burned. The ashes are pulverized into dust-thin particles. Then a destruction statement is signed...
...Ameche and Carmen Mathews make exceedingly likable parents, and at its best, Holiday for Lovers is bright, amiable and even passingly witty. But as the play has no ribs, so the satire has no guts. Afraid to scratch even the surface, Playwright Alexander just gently pats...
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, the biggest U.S. brokerage house, has never put out a market letter for its customers. Virtually every other firm puts out at least a weekly or bimonthly letter, considers it as vital to business as a scratch sheet is to a race track. "When a speculator walks into our office," says one big broker, "he wants a copy of the market letter. If we don't have one, he'll march right across the hall to another brokerage office that does...
...told, the Roommate is a disturbing but bearable sort, besides which he is Necessary. He may steal your butts, scratch your records, drink your liquor, date your girl, and rattle your tender nerves; but he is Necessary. When choosing yours, be sure to experiment carefully beforehand. After all is said, the Neanderthal method may prove the surest. Chacun a son gout...
...deal, sold 75,000 as fast as he could make them, even though buyers had to scrounge the tubes on the black market. To expand, he leased a city-owned grazing meadow and put up four small frame sheds. Says Grundig: "It was a great chance to start from scratch. We inherited no inefficient plant layouts, no tradition that had to be respected...