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...school in Jamaica Plain, Turnquist handled the housebreaking a little differently. Reasoning that a dog is basically a clean animal, he developed a glorified barrel-doghouse and called it Kanine Kastle. The dog was confined to the barrel except for short walks at regular intervals. Faced with the prospect of living and sleeping in any mess he made, the dog quickly adjusted his system to a normal routine...
...until the proposals for dropping pork-barrel items began piling up in the pantry, and the budget-cutters began to replace broad-gauged words with some specific proposals, could the U.S. taxpayer settle back and listen to the pleasant sputter of frying...
...usual, the biggest roll of fat was uncomfortably close to Congress' own waistline. The annual pork barrel-a dazzling and expensive array of highways, flood walls, harbor improvements, reclamation projects, new parks and buildings, and other enterprises designed principally to please a Congressman's or 'Senator's home-town constituents-would be the real test of the cooks' intentions...
Early this year, newly installed Rheemcote equipment will roll out the barrel coast to coast, from all of Rheem's seven U. S. container plants. Presses, roller coaters and oven equipment were ordered in sizes never before built. Handling and fabricating machinery was specially designed to form lithographed, lined steel sheets into drums, without marring either surface...
...Aramco's profits, including 1950's whopping net (before royalties) of $180 million. For Ibn Saud and Saudi Arabia, it meant a kingly take of $90 million, 50% more than the $60 million that would have been paid under the old royalty payments of 34? a barrel. If, as expected, Aramco rings up an operating profit of $200 million in 1951, Ibn Saud will get half of that...