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With its blast WPB had shot its wad. The companies at once denied the charges. Under its sky-broad Presidential decree WPB could take over the plants and put them under Government operation. This is unlikely: producing more than 30% of the entire U.S. steel supply, the two corporations are too vital to be monkeyed with by anyone but crackerjack steelmen. WPB therefore flipped the whole thing over to the Justice Department with a meek "for appropriate action." The action: suits to enjoin future violations...
...whole story." He had killed his mother too, he said. Why? He had had a bitter childhood, he wanted her money, his father mistreated her and he wanted to put her out of her pain. After she fell asleep one night, Courtney had dropped chloroform on a wad of cotton which he held over her nose until she died. Said Courtney calmly: "I had an Oedipus complex...
...Wad. In Coquitlam, B.C., one Henry Steen felt something sticky on the sole of his shoe, bent down to scrape it off, unstuck a $100 bill...
Ears. In Columbus, Ohio, a man reported to police that a stranger in a grill room had bitten off a piece of his ear. In Indianapolis, hospital physicians relieved ten-year-old James Hurt's earache by removing a wad of paper from one ear, a wad of paper, a piece of lead and an eraser from the other...
Crosby also introduced Hope to the delights of horse racing. On their first day at the track together the jut-jawed comic ran wild. Placing $2 here, $2 there, he ran up a sizable wad of folding money. He had worked up a vigorous enthusiasm for the ponies when one-of his entries finished out of the money. Thereupon he decided that horse gambling was too uncertain for pleasure...