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...then, the term "new car" is somewhat misleading, insofar as it signifies progress. This year's automotive atmosphere is typified by a Boston dealer's justification of the high price on his new model--"well," he said, "the trim is nicely finished...
...Paris-bound train when the stationmaster at Dijon handed him President Auriol's telegram inviting him to try his hand at forming a cabinet. Pinay, an Independent Republican, had never considered himself a likely Premier. With his neat crinkly hair, his long thin face, glasses, and his trim little mustache, he looked just what he was: a small-town French businessman...
...price cutting will wash the small retailer down the drain, since he is unable to get the volume to compete with Goody's phenomenally low (8%) markup. The manufacturers themselves, drawing lessons from Goody's demonstration of what big volume and low markups can do, may trim their own prices...
...tankers, Morris has received neither subpoena power nor the privilege to immunize certain witnesses from prosecution. The investigation has dragged on for so long that it looks as if Morris' chances to tackle the Internal Revenue Department are as remote as Pogo's fulfilling his "date in Lapland to trim a reindeer...
...wonders at the needless cruelty to living creatures involved in the tests described. If living tissue must be tortured in an attempt to support the false claims of the cigarette manufacturers, I suggest that we use the nicotine hucksters themselves. Let's drip smoky water in their eyes; trim their eyelids; cut holes in their windpipes...