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...different story was told by those strategic commodities (especially rubber & tin) of which the U. S. is short and may be shorter at the whim of Japan. Spot rubber held during the worst of the panic "at around 23?, ended the week down only 2∧ because of general liquidating pressure...
...forced to do because of its rigid budget. But, principle or no principle, the students are willing to pay for what they want, and are well organized and determined to get it. This is the first plea to receive more than an abrupt "No!" In no sense a whim, or mere nagging at the University, it is based on the fact that at present Chemistry concentrators are barred from practically all extra-curricular activities by time limitations. It's time they got a break...
Next, Mr. Ickes got down to the cases of the "snipers and guttersnipers." Snipers were General Hugh Johnson and Westbrook Pegler. "While Johnson is against only those numerous public officials who are bungling affairs that he could so competently manage, Pegler is against everything and everybody according to his whim." Chief guttersniper in Mr. Ickes' category was "Mr. Munchausen," identified in advance copies of the speech as Paul Mallon, although CBS induced Mr. Ickes not to call names over the air. Several of Columnist Mallon's items about Mr. Ickes, Mr. Ickes bluntly charged, were lies...
...thronged with more modern, more efficient rivals. A plausible theory is that the Coelacanths retreated to the deeps where competition was not severe, and persisted there as the archaic okapi survived in the dense Congo forests, as the primitive duck-billed platypus in benign Australia. If so, some whim or freak of circumstance brought this particular Coelacanth up from the deeps to the coastal water of South Africa. And the possibility remains that other "living fossils" may lurk in the ocean depths, awaiting the scrutiny of science if science is ingenious enough to retrieve them...
...residents a little alarm. Songs in the serious, philosophic, or romantic vein are carried off by Tamara and Mary Martin, with a little assistance from Mr. Gaxton. "Get Out of Town" and "From Now On" will be heard a lot this winter, and others according to the public's whim...