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...phenomenon of the wetbacks is not new, but until World War II, it was not a large one. The war siphoned off agricultural labor, particularly lowpaying, exhausting "stoop labor" along the lower Rio Grande, in New Mexico, Arizona and California. The wetbacks rushed into the vacuum...
...planes are worn out. The navy-important in Free China's offshore situation -consists of 100 combat vessels, not more than a third of which are serviceable. Besides spare parts, the.navy's main need is for U.S. technicians: a whole radar complex will fail because one vacuum tube has blown; a U.S. technician could find and fix the trouble in ten minutes...
...lately of Hollywood. A new, if feebler, edition of that pious fraud, Elmer Gantry, with a touch of Berzelius Windrip, the magnificent Lorenzo plans a Technicolored crusade to convert America to the gospels of Culture and Leadership, meanwhile scooting across Europe and sweeping up historical tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with a pert tongue, a figure that no man can keep his hands off, and "the voice of a bird flying at dun twilight over the western plains...
When the depression deflated prices, it deflated Classical theories as well. Hansen, with degrees from two colleges and a plethora of answers, stepped into the vacuum. He also stepped into several government jobs...
...first glance at the oil industry, FTC found no links between Standard Oil (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum, two of the biggest U.S. companies, or between them and other big oil companies. But on closer inspection FTC said it found that Standard and Socony were linked, through common affiliates, to each other and to almost every other major oil company. ^ To break up interlocking directorates, Chairman Mead wants Congress to amend the Clayton Act, giving the FTC power to act in cases and situations not now covered...