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...that, Merrill Lynch had to buy & sell $3,000,000,000 in securities and commodity contracts. The profits will not be long in pocket. Taxes, which are not computed in the net-Merrill Lynch is a partnership and taxes are paid by the individuals-will siphon off all but $1,100,000, leaving an average of $20,750 for each of the 53 partners...
...parting shot as U.S. Price Czar, Leon Henderson last week tossed up a smart-sounding plan to siphon loose cash from U.S. citizens, thus help control inflation. The scheme: a buy-in-advance arrangement to sell purchase certificates now on consumer goods to be delivered after...
...National Association of Manufacturers announced a 200-man War Committee to siphon more & faster production from its 8,000 members (who hold 80% of all war contracts) and to help Don Nelson find and use their best industrial talent.* To head its steering committee, N.A.M. selected Malcolm Muir, publisher of Newsweek...
...cheese it!, cheezit!, chuck it!, come off (of it)!, come off the grass!, curl up!, cut it (out) !, douse it!, dowse it!, drop it!, enuff!, fade away!, freeze!, hold on!, hold up!, kill it!, lay off!, leave off!, let up!, nix!, nix on that!, ring off!, sign off!, siphon off!, sound off!, stow it!, turn it off!, whoa Bill!, whoa Maud!, whoa Mud!, whoa there...
...partly full of helium II is lowered part way into a bath of the same liquid, the levels within and without come gradually ... to the identical height, as if there were a perforation in the cup or a siphon over its rim-but there is no siphon and there is no perforation," writes Physicist Karl Kelchner Darrow of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Reviews of Modern Physics. "The cup need not even be partly full to start with-it can be empty initially, and the liquid will climb invisibly over its rim from the bath...