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...because Philadelphia has $1,000,000,000 in defense projects, the President declared that he intended to do something about it. He had already instructed Federal Security Administrator Paul McNutt to go get a whiff of Philadelphia, see whether the Government could "cooperate with the local authorities to insure that national as well as local interests will be insured and safeguarded...
After World War I, when the last whiff of smoke was safely blown away, thousands of eager trippers toured the battle fields of France. Last week some of them and their children got a vicarious look at a still-pungent battlefield of World War II -through the eyes of the first U.S. and British correspondents allowed by the Russians to visit the front...
With the freezing of Axis funds in the U.S., the German-American Bund, Axis propagandists, many an agent of espionage suddenly found no funds. Banks stopped withdrawals from any accounts that gave off the faintest Axis whiff. Also hit by the order were many an irreproachable corporation, foreign interest, alien shopkeeper, citizen. Shocked and shaken was Mrs. Abby Morrison Ricker, Manhattan socialite, daughter and granddaughter of bank presidents, who awoke one morning to discover that checks she had written were bouncing. She had returned a month ago from a two-and-a-half-year stay in Italy, had forgotten...
...were few clearly marked trails. Outside of Congressman Martin Dies, who blazed away every time a bush shook, few saw any definite mark to aim at. But the Communists were like skunks: no one had to see them to know that they were there. Many a Congressman got a whiff. Democratic Leader McCormack announced before the Allis-Chalmers settlement: "We know that the Communists are in there working in Milwaukee." To OPM's angry William Knudsen, the important part of the Allis-Chalmers strike (in which he said 4,000,000 hours of time were lost) was "that...
...most U. S. cinemaddicts knew long ago, when a pretty poule (Mireille Balin) visits the Casbah, the whiff of outside air she brings is too strong for Pépé. But Duvivier never lets her intrusion sink his story into another formula triangle. The camera stays on Pépé, watches his mind squirm in its cage...