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...press two months ago when the General Maximum Price Regulation was announced. They got only a passing reference in the first documents describing "the big freeze." And when Congress shortly thereafter refused subsidy funds to RFC, most people shrugged their shoulders and thought it was just another swipe at newly unpopular Jesse Jones...
Dirty Uncle Murray had squealed. He told how he had helped Cullen swipe a roll of adhesive tape from a 5?-&-10? store and buy some other odds & ends they might need in robbing Mrs. Reich...
...After a swipe at "the skillful work" Washington did for the auto industry in publicizing its curtailment plans ("a cash value of hundreds of thousands of dollars in increased sales") Editor Elhart tore into the subject of fabric conservation. He wrote...
...banquet for the advertising department he took a swipe at Marshall Field's Sun and at the Tribune's critics ("People-may question our being the world's greatest newspaper. I cannot find they ever suggest any other candidate."). Then he announced that when he dies employes will be permitted to buy his shares (only ten) of Tribune Co. stock and he hoped that eventually they might be permitted to buy a majority of the company's 2,000 shares of stock (estimated value: $25,000 to $40,000 a share...
China has also an ace to offer the U.S. in return for war materials: bases. There are airfields in Chinese territory under the Chinese flag almost to the Pacific coast itself. From them some day U.S. bombers may swipe at Japan...