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...much like private enterprises on a box-office basis-but with this important difference: there can be no such thing as a "turkey" in Moscow. At the moment all Moscow theaters are making money; but if anything went wrong with any one theater, the State would take up the slack...
White House correspondents had not seen Franklin Roosevelt for 38 days. Many of them had watched newsreels to see how he looked; had seen the San Diego railroad-car film of his Democratic Convention speech, in which his face had seemed gaunt and slack, his eyes and cheeks hollow. They had not been able to tell whether bad lighting or deep fatigue was responsible. They had noted that in pictures shot in Hawaiian sunshine, and again, beneath a cruiser's guns at Bremerton, he seemed healthier, more alert, though thinner of face. Therefore, with curiosity and concern, they filed...
...after day, sitting back of headquarters' tent, he gave haircuts to all comers, generals and privates alike. When business grew slack he brewed coffee for anybody who wanted it. Though he spoke only Polish, Ziggy managed to convey the fact that he was a cheerful, eager guy who liked to work...
...only self-sustaining, but personnel and equipment of its units are interchangeable. . . . As soon as a plant in one complex is bombed out, its workers may be transported to a similar plant in another complex to be put on as an additional shift there and thus take up the slack caused by loss of the plant from which they have just been driven...
Slim, 42-year-old George Price looks most like one of his own harassed, slack-jowled characters when he is drawing them. He commonly throws his face out of joint trying to get their wacky crankinesses into line. Small-mustached, small and quick of eye, he looks normally like the art director of a small advertising agency. He was one once. Before that he inspected solder connections for General Electric...