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Today Jewel Tea sells more coffee than anything else but fundamental policies have not changed a whit. Its line has been broadened to include toilet articles, soap, spices, baking powder, rice, other packaged staples. But the Jewel Man in the Jewel Ford truck still makes his fortnightly calls on 800,000 housewives scattered up & down some 1,500 routes. Rural country is avoided because of the time wasted in bumping from one farm to the next. Villages and small cities where houses are close and people neighborly are Jewel's choice territories...
...Wright and Moffat's research is that it supplies additional evidence that smoking increases the damage to the tissues of a person whose blood circulation is impaired. Diseases which smokers must guard against include angina pectoris, thrombo-angiitis obliterans. arteriosclerosis. But, cheerfully add the researchers, they have no whit of evidence that smoking causes such diseases...
...only one thing to be done, and done quickly. It WAS done. Professor Murdock a curried to the nearest bookstore, purchased the volume and deposited it on the table in the Junior Common Room. When Mr. Allen appeared the book was there it was autographed, and nobody was a whit the wiser...
...that the government is asserting its right to decide each of these things, and to decide them without accepting, as the private producer must, the responsibility for its decision. And the right which it asserts is one supported only by a de jure Austinian sovereignty, without a whit of de facto sanction...
...John Daniel Hertz is keen, amiable, modest but, in a business tussle, a ferocious fighter. It bothers him not a whit that on a polo field in his heavy tortoise-shell spectacles, with his helmet snugly strapped under his big chin, and seated in a curious grey, woolly saddle, he cuts a strange figure. When he misses a shot, which is often, he always shouts...