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Since World War II began, professional mourners have repeatedly hung crepe on the door of small business. But small business bullheadedly refused to die. Last week this stubborn survivor got a shot in the arm. Needle wielder was droopy-lidded, deadpan Robert Wood Johnson, boss of the Smaller War Plants Corp. The shot: a new plan for civilian production in small plants...
...gamy Memphis another clean-up campaign was in full swing, and as usual owl-eyed, benign Boss Ed Crump, 67, was the prime cudgel-wielder. This time he was after the cats. Memphis songbirds were in peril, said the boss, so cats must go. A "nice house cat" was all right, but tramps of either sex were out. Promptly cattraps began to appear in Memphis back yards, particularly those of county and city employes. County Commissioner Francis Andrews trapped three right...
...Wielder of the haymaker was able Harold Glenn Moulton, head of the Brookings Institution (famed for its economic studies), who wrote a 93-page pamphlet, The New Philosophy of Public Debt, to prove that deficit spending and boundless public debt lead either to totalitarianism or to debt repudiation; that without "a stable system of public finance ... in the U.S., and also in other countries, the foundation stone for international reconstruction will rest on quicksand...
...more players reached the semi-final round of the University Tennis Tournament this week, first seeded Al Everts, Varsity number one man, and Mal Moley, Freshman racquet-wielder, who has been blazing a phenomenal trail in this tournament...
...picture in the April 14 issue of TIME showing eight labor mad dogs beating one worker must have stirred the blood of every person who saw it. The wielder of what appears to be an iron rod [it was a child's baseball bat-ED.] seems to be aiming for the victim's spinal column with a blow backed by all his strength...