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...think your comment upon Mr. Justice Frankfurter, in TIME, June 9, was sneering and untrue. The trouble with the young man who wrote it, as Artemus Ward said of some other people several years ago, "ain't ignorance, but knowing so much that ain...
...Anglo-Iranian oil companies. The Board buys oil from these companies, resells it to them for distribution. Retail profits are fixed, but the oil companies can set the retail price, presumably take a profit on bulk sales to the Board. Cockney comment on the Petroleum Board: "Oh my, ain't it a luvly...
...dirty cotton boll showed up at the picket line, began to march in the opposite direction. His sign read: "We Americans Protest Communists Picketing the White House." He was Abe Tikotsky, an electrical worker, once of Springfield, Ill., with a lugubrious voice and sore feet. He said: "These dopes ain't got no sense. . . ."A clean-cut youth from South Dakota, now working in the War Department, stopped by and said: "That's a wonderful thing you're doing, fella." "Fine," said Abe. "would you mind standing in for me a minute?" "Not at all," said...
...just ain't got no privacy," moaned one rare Crustacea to its neighbor as a splintering crash was heard over head. Safe from predatory human bug-hunters and naturalists since its incarceration in a glass case at Peabody 50 years ago these animals today again had attackers...
Convoy Through. Having lost all of their heavy equipment in Greece and much in Libya, the Middle Eastern British were last week mechanically almost naked. Apparently it was decided in Brit ain to send out new tanks and guns, and that the matter was so urgent that the supplies should not go around Africa but should risk the Mediterranean. The last time the British tried that, the aircraft carrier Illustrious was knocked out and the light cruiser Southampton sunk...