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Some of my best friends are Stanleys and I have yet to see or hear one belch. The main burner may pop back or get to moanin' low if the fire is turned on too soon; she might sizzle, hiss or tick a little as the pressure rises; you might hear a soft "wuff-wuff" as a Steamer passes; there could even be a slight thumping if a pump bearing were worn. But belching! You might better have said "The Silent Stanley Steamer...
...Idaho last spring, Dean Sabine told his audience: "You can't be an informed person if you, as a consumer of journalism, are the really weak link in the communication chain, if you don't have at least a minimum understanding of what makes the press tick . . . Last fall I was a 'professor in residence' at . . . TIME, Inc., and I learned a great deal there about how much it means to transfer information from the printed page to the inside of the head . . . Column for column and hour for hour, TIME today probably earns more real...
...Rebellion. But his critics didn't know what made Alben Barkley tick. They found out on Feb. 23, 1944. Barkley had worked faithfully to get through a $10.5 billion Administration tax bill, came out with $2.3 billion, which he knew was the best that Congress could produce in an election year. Roosevelt rejected the $2.3 billion bill with a stinging veto message, penciling in the taunt that the bill was really "a tax-relief bill, providing relief not for the needy but for the greedy...
...Ridge National Laboratory last week, Entomologist R. C. Bushland of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was planning a dirty trick on an unpleasant insect: the screwworm fly of Texas and Florida. The female flies lay their eggs in open wounds (even scratches or tick bites) in the hides of cattle. From each clutch hatch about 200 maggots, which eat a hole in a cow as big as a lemon. Often other flies attack the same wound. Unless an outside agency (i.e., a cowpoke with anti-fly dressings) comes to the cow's rescue, she may be eaten alive...
...charge." (He means it in the military, not the merchandising, sense.) Yet he vehemently castigates the "military mind" in business, which he defines as thinking from the top down instead of the bottom up. "The military mind," says Old Soldier Wood, "doesn't know what makes our country tick." Bob Wood is sure he does know: free enterprise, whose "basic purpose is providing people with the things they require, at the lowest possible prices...