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...your crutch; 2) the most efficient and attractive crutch position is dead vertical; 3) a legless person can always make a sucker of a carnival weight guesser; 4) a good way to relieve the boredom of answering nosybodies who want to know how it happened is to tell whoppers (a favorite Baker whopper: her leg got frozen stiff in skiing and was chipped off with an ice pick...
...taking the test "quite a number of the boys felt the need for a special course in geography, got up a delegation and asked the headmaster for it. So here I am saddled with such a course with 26 students in it. I shall try to make it a whopper...
Cleveland had even better news. More jobs were in the immediate making. In the last year 50 industrial companies had decided to locate new factories in the Cleveland area. The $100,000,000 they were spending would spill out into about 25,000 jobs. The prize catch was a whopper: two General Motors plants (to produce the new light Chevrolet) that would cost upwards of $50,000,000, make jobs for a minimum of 10,500 men.*Cleveland was working on more factory prospects, with about 25,000 more jobs as the prizes...
Last week, however, it netted a whopper -the biggest used car ring. In 18 months it had handled about 5,000 cars, worth $4,000,000 at ceiling prices, sold them for $7,000,000. The technique: buying from individuals in auto-jammed Detroit, selling to the auto-hungry mid-South through auction outlets in sleepy Cairo, Ill., and sleepier Murray, Ky. The indicted ringleader: dark, stocky Ben Fishel of Cairo, whose business ran merrily on while he served in the Army...
...question of the week was: should France have a big, expensive army or a small, inexpensive one? Puffy-cheeked War Minister André Diethelm thought the army should be a whopper, chiefly as a matter of prestige. Lean, hardheaded Finance Minister René Pleven insisted that a small, tight, mechanized force was all that was necessary: in tomorrow's atomic war a massive array of manpower would be silly. Last week the Cabinet met in Paris, listened for five hours to the williwaw of conflicting opinions. The man who does France's bookkeeping finally...