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...merit. The only thing radio men are panting to know is: "How many people listened?" The service makes no claim even to an answer on that. Each Hooper point does not necessarily equal a million listeners (e.g., 31,100,000 for Hope). Hooper says that that rule-of-thumb may be true, but as far as he is concerned, it is just a huckster's sales pitch...
...most Andros natives, although they know well the little men with their pink, staring eyes, toothless mouths and flame-red beards, avert their eyes when they feel a chickcharney near by, for if you bump into one face to face your only hope is to press thumb and little finger into your palm and hold up the other three fingers. Then the chickcharney may take you for a comrade; he himself has only three fingers or three toes on each limb...
Political intervention cannot stop Peron, especially within the rigidly policed confines of his own state, and economic sanctions are useless on a country as wealthy as Argentina. There remains only the necessity for halting Argentine encroachment by aiding the unproductive states that come under Peron's thumb through their economic dependence. If American farmers can afford to dump leads of potatoes on the ground to protect the market, then they can also supply badly needed foodstuffs for Bolivian miners. A program of adding the economically weak countries of South America to the list of nations benefitting by American food would...
...puller. Unlike most women golfers, who are timid before an audience, the Babe in her showmanship is as subtle as a punch on the nose. When she spotted a photographer trying to take her picture, she yelled, "I'm not so bad that you have to have your thumb over the lens, am I?" At Orlando, she quipped to her male partner: "Come on, pardner, let out. Why allow poor little me to pass you up all the time...
...effect, this meant that the president, in spite of his high-sounding title, was actually under the thumb of the U.S. executive director, who, because of the huge U.S. investment in the Bank, controls the biggest bloc of votes on the board. And the U.S. executive director was bossy, ambitious Emilio Gabriel Collado, 36, longtime New Deal economist. Many bankers feared that Collado was likely to put too heavy an emphasis on the political instead of financial merits of loans...