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...opinion of one local officer that the Chief has been very lenient about this ruling so far, but that the arrival of winter weather will probably provide the needed boost to get a drive under...
...Association of School Administrators. His hard-headed administrative outlook: "Let's have glorious ideals for education, but let's use horse sense in achieving them." Typical of his horse sense was the time when, as a school superintendent, he was called by the mayor, who wanted to boost somebody for a job. Hill wasn't annoyed. Says he: "I wouldn't want to employ anybody who had no friends at all, even if he were reduced to only the mayor...
Dali was readying for publication a handbook to be called 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship. Meanwhile he gave the unfinished Leda a surrealist boost in the Dali News-a newspaper by and about himself, which he published for his exhibition. Wrote Dali...
...does not intend to pass the boost in crude prices on to consumers (normally a 50? increase would raise gasoline prices 2?) unless "other companies raise their prices." Jersey Standard's Eugene Holman said he did not favor price increases "at the present time." But the chances looked pretty good that many other companies would raise both crude and product prices even though industry profits are running 67% better than last year. Any such increase would step up pressure for price control and rationing of oil products...
...made him jump. The floors were laid out poorly, the sales fixtures outmoded. "My God," groaned Ed Carter, "the fellows who laid out the Pasadena store are laying out the new Broadway-Crenshaw." The Crenshaw, seven miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles, was the new branch that was to boost Broadway into first place among Los Angeles department stores...