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Charles G. Kadison, Jr. '55, President of Ivy Films, objected to the U.N. Council's policy. "By showing just two or three films they skim the cream off the top of the campus film industry," he declared...
...carefully followed and lab-tested for two years or more. This diet is not extreme or hard to follow, since it may include as much as two ounces of fat a day. The doctors exclude butter, cream, fatty meat, egg yolk and cheese. However, they let the patients have skim milk...
...that: I) at any given time, about one-quarter of the U.S. population is on a diet; 2) the first thing dieters are likely to give up is milk products. Per capita consumption of whole milk and butter has dropped 19% since the war. But consumption of low-calorie skim milk and nonfat dry milk has risen as much as 136%. To fight the diet menace, the dairy farmers will spend between $6 million and $10 million in the next year, touting milk as the "ideal food" around which to build a reducing diet...
Peanuts on the Table. At General Motors, Charlie Wilson usually got to work about 9 in the morning. Nowadays, having turned out early to skim the morning papers, he is at the Pentagon at 8:15, and by 8:30 has had a conference with Roger Kyes. To keep informed on current problems, he relies on oral briefings, principally from his aide, Colonel Randall, or from Ralph Moore, a personal secretary brought along from Detroit. Early in his Pentagon career, Engine Charlie learned, he once reported, that "the people around here are always briefing you. They...
...industry was mobilized and fared equally under EPT. But when EPT was slapped on again in 1950, even the tax's Fair Deal advocates admitted that it was unsound-although its very name made it politically popular. In a semi-mobilized economy, such a tax could not skim the profits from arms contracts without also spooning out the legitimate profits of consumer industries...