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...Regular. When the curtain went up, Stage Director Lunt himself pranced out in maroon livery and powdered wig. He cleared his throat commandingly, waved a couple of latecomers to their seats, then went through the stage business of lighting a row of electric footlights with a taper, all to great applause...
What military leaders feared most was a post-Korean public clamor to release reservists now in the services, and to taper off on the draft. They were dead against such ideas. Another question that worried them (but not nearly so much): How long can you keep a big armed force up to snuff if nothing happens...
...allies beginning immediately. The estimates: 15,000 tanks, 25,000 pieces of artillery and 40,000 super-bazookas and recoilless rifles. This would be merely a part of a general program which would run between $35 billion and $40 billion annually for the next three years and then would taper off to a maintenance level of about $25 billion a year. But since then the Pentagon planners have been raising their goals almost every week; the talk in Washington last week was of a possible defense budget topping $50 billion a year-or more than one-fifth of the nation...
...forestall any "hoarding" of cars, automen cautioned: "Don't get panicky. There's plenty for everybody." In fact, General Motors Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. thought that the huge demand for cars would soon begin to taper off; he doubted that it would hold at its present peak beyond year...
...last week more than 3,500 houses had been started, and completions are expected at the rate of 100 a week. Said Mark Taper: "This is planning as businessmen can do it. Ours will be the only big city in the world without any garbage...