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...main jobs of the Federal Trade Commission are to clamp down on misleading advertising and, dig up cases of monopoly. Because it is much easier to spot a fake ad than to dig up evidence for a full-fledged antitrust suit, FTC has felt moved to skimp on its more important trustbusting job; it has recently used its august powers on such piddling tasks as telling 1) Northwestern Extract Co. to stop claiming that "Grape Sparkle" contains real grape juice, 2) a small greeting-card company to stop describing its cards as "plateless engraved," and 3) International Laboratories...
...location is fine for a theater, and the proximity to Sanders may be valuable for rehearsal arrangements. The big question is whether an adequate new theater can be built, along with the other two parts of the plan, within the $750,000 limit fixed by the Committee. To skimp the theater would be inexcusable. It should be a theater, not an auditorium--a theater with at least 1500 seats, adequate dressing rooms, a modern stage, and a projection booth and other technical facilities. Without those qualities its usefulness would plummet downwards, negating the effects of economy...
...needs and prays for. So today I read about a $40,000 debut. Then I think that a thousand of American girls like myself could have gotten a watch or a coat, maybe braces for her teeth with a bit of money spent so lavishly and foolishly. . . . While we skimp and save and do without so much that could make us happy. I am a private in the Army . . . draw monthly $36. ... I'll bum cigarets when I am broke, but I'll never admire or respect these people who throw thousands of dollars away to show...
...economic weight of the U.S. had been thrown into the scales, thereby giving potential weapon superiority to Hitler's enemies. But the actual weapon advantage was still his. The Wehrmacht rode that advantage for 15 months, but the ride was no longer easy. The Wehrmacht now had to skimp. The results showed clearly in the Mediterranean: the Afrika Korps recovered Italian Cyrenaica but lacked enough power to crush beseiged Tobruk; then lost Cyrenaica again to Auchinleck; finally, reinforced, overran the British army to push across Egypt to El Alamein. At that point only a decimated British army which...
...noble production job. But not Antonelli. Fortnight ago military police marched into his powder shacks, jailed Antonelli and six superintendents for "deliberate and malicious" faulty manufacture of grenades and incendiary bombs for the U.S. At the grand jury hearing last week, workers testified that they had been instructed to skimp on powder except when the "Boy Scouts" (Government inspectors) were looking, that Antonelli had said: "The bombs are no damn good anyway. Just get out the production...