Word: alienating
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...tune according to Billboard magazine's weekly poll. Last year, a Chicago organist named Ken Griffin had. recorded it, thinking it was an old folk tune. A record distributer looked it up, discovered it was only twelve years old, and held by the U.S. Office of Alien Property. Its big royalties now go to the U.S. Government. That would make little difference to its German composers: Tunesmith Hans Otten was dead; Lyricist Gerhard Ebeler had dropped from sight...
Evidence that few companies would be able to resist the general trend came from the Government-controlled North American Rayon and American Bemberg Corps. After arguing for months that the companies' prices .were already too high, the Office of Alien Property was finally won over by minority stockholders, agreed to let management charge 10% more...
...Flytes of Brideshead were a doomed family. They were Catholics in an alien community. The Flytes' Catholicism could not save them from a doom enjoined by the interaction of their characters on one another and the modern world. But it could save them from dissolution in their doom. That was the real meaning of Brideshead Revisited-that Catholicism was the one force that could still give order and unity to fragmented lives...
...Calhoun took a rat census of several adjoining blocks in Baltimore, and trapped and marked many of the native-son rats. Then he released 112 marked alien rats in the center of the middle block. At once there was social strife. Both native rats and aliens scurried around wildly, invading backyards where none had been seen before. Dogs and humans joined the fray. In the first 18 days there were 31 rat casualties...
...Alien Property. For the second time in 30 years, the Government put up for sale a majority interest in American Bosch Corp., maker of ignition and fuel-injection devices. The German-controlled company was first taken over by the U.S. during World War I and later sold. Somehow it got back into German hands. In 1942 the Office of Alien Property Custodian seized 77% (some 535,000) of its outstanding shares as enemy property. This time the stock will be sold, at competitive bidding, to U.S. citizens only. Any shares that get into the hands of aliens will automatically become...