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Science had proved that ticks carried the fever germs; the obvious remedy was to dip the cattle in great vats of arsenic and kill the ticks. In the South, John Mohler ran smack into cow-pasture prejudice...
Snooping for Reds in Government jobs, Texas' unesthetic Representative Martin Dies lumbered smack into esthetic John Bovingdon, 53, $5,600-a-year economic analyst for the new Office of Economic Warfare. Forgetting both Reds and grammar, earthbound Martin Dies cried: "[Bovingdon's] record and career as a ballet dancer is well known...
...shopping thoroughfare. But south of Van Buren Street, lower boundary of the "L" loop, there is an equally famous part of State Street: a scabrous collection of saloons, shooting galleries, hock shops, flea markets, peep shows, "red hot" burlesques and flophouses ("clean quiet comfort for 30?"), smack in the middle of Chicago's notorious First Ward, once an important Al Capone domain...
Matson's hopes are high, but they run smack into CAB policy. Several years ago CAB scotched a deal between Matson and Pan American Airways (for whom Matson acts as Pacific agents) whereby Matson and Pan Am would be equal partners in a new company furnishing peacetime air transport over the Pacific from the U.S. CAB which recently ordered American Export Airlines to divorce itself from its parent shipping company, is opposed to the ownership of airlines by carriers...
...please). . . . What student officer has red spots before his eyes every time he puts on his whites . . . . What's Bill Kershaw's new system for meeting the right girls in places? Dick Custer reported to be closing a deal with his "Andover Anchovy". Seems she run a finishing smack down thataway and Dick likes the way she tosses her lines around...