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...have not happened. By strict military discipline, MacArthur has kept flyers from chasing enemy planes beyond the Yalu River. Chinese shipping, bringing supplies to the enemy, has been at the mercy of ships in MacArthur's command. Yet Chinese ships outside of Korean territorial waters have not been sunk...
Half a century later, a new advertising technique gave the sexagenarian business an added boost. The ominous crow was retired; the slogan became "Wake up your liver bile!" Jingles urged readers and radio listeners: "When you feel sour and sunk, and the world looks punk . . . Take a Carter's Little Liver Pill." Carter's went on to claim that the increased liver bile would enable the pill-taker to overeat and overindulge in "good times" without morning-after regrets, to wake up "clear-eyed and steady-nerved," "feeling just wonderful," and "alert and ready for work." Copywriters combed...
...last week not only forbade Carter Products to use the word "liver" in the name of its pills, but told Carter's to stop claiming that its pills are specific remedies for conditions in which an individual feels "down-and-out, blue, down-in-the-dumps, worn out, sunk, logy, depressed, sluggish, allin, listless, mean, low, cross, tired, stuffy, heavy, miserable, sour, grouchy, irritable, cranky, peevish, fagged out, dull, sullen, what's-the-use, bogged down, grumpy, run down or gloomy...
...Greek border where it adjoins Bulgaria and Albania is held and patrolled by tough, experienced troops under spirited officers. Armed with basic infantry weapons up to mortars, the troops ride the mountain passes astride husky mules from Missouri. Sunk back 15 to 60 miles behind the Greek frontier regiments are the support divisions, eight in the field and one around Athens, a total...
...last week, the investigators had still to find any evidence of outright illegality in & around the RFC (though the Justice Department was busily reading the committee transcripts for evidence of perjury). But there was no doubt that the RFC had sunk a long way from the day when Jesse Jones could turn down a presidential suggestion on a loan with the remark: "Well, Boss, we are not running a charitable organization...