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...plans, no matter how well-intended, had a suspicious look in an election year. Badly used, they could easily turn the defense program into a gigantic pork barrel. In any case, they would boost the cost of an already inflated arms program...
...dressed. The only giveaway was the orchid in her lapel [see cut]. No real flower that, but one of diamonds, larger even than an orchid, about five inches across by seven inches high-a brooch of big, pure white diamonds that must have been worth $250,000. Barrel earclips of diamond baguettes and her ball-like diamond ring were minor accessories by contrast...
...biggest plywood producer.* But it owned little timberland, thus was afraid of being caught in a price squeeze in purchasing its raw material. This week Georgia-Pacific's Cheatham found a neat solution to the problems of both companies. He bought out the Johnson company lock, stock & barrel stave for $16.8 million...
Pravda also peeked into the O.K.B. trade machinery division where "56 persons occupy themselves with pouring from one empty barrel into an empty pail and back again." This inspired Pravda to a new term for bureaucratic goldbricking: "Grinding water in a mortar...
...time has come when more & more women must go into business . . . The manpower barrel has been scraped clean . . . Let the men laugh at woman's intuition if they will ... If your husband owns a business or owns a factory, YOU learn...