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...realtors, banks, restaurants, hotels, bars, prostitutes, it was boomtown prosperity. Per capita earning in the city was the world's highest: $23 a week. On the first and 15th of every month, $20,000,000 in Federal wages spout out of the Treasury into workers' pockets. Postage receipts were up $100,000,000 in February 1941 over February 1940. In the past five years, department-store sales jumped from an annual $57,000,000 to $85,000,000. In a year, one drugstore chain sold 40,000 alarm clocks...
...Paso, Tex., on the silty ever-changing banks of the Rio Grande-but not enough to wash the word chamizal from long Mexican memories. In Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies last week Deputy Professor (of the National University) José Betancourt Pérez rose to spout: "Mexico cannot believe in the Good Neighbor policy if the United States does not comply with its obligations in the Chamizal case...
...normal weight and the judicious use of drugs ... is as good as any." Hypertension is a disease of the arterial system. The heart pumps blood into the arteries with such force that if a large artery were slashed and a vertical glass tube inserted, the column of blood would spout to a height of almost three feet...
...Algonquin's Round Table perished years ago, but it bequeathed Kaufman, Benchley and Dorothy Parker as the town's great wits. Kaufman has proved almost as much of a spout offstage as on. His puns are endless: "One man's Mede is another man's Persian" or (of a college girl who eloped) "She put the heart before the course." So are his retorts discourteous. When Adolph Zukor, then president of Paramount, offered Kaufman $30,000 for movie rights on a play, Kaufman, who thought the rights worth much more, replied: "I guess...
...Harvard's down the spout...