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...part, goes to the other extreme. Bug-eyed over details--costs, inefficiency, and the like--Republicans do not see the large issues. More and more they have become minor demagogues, bellowing now about socialism, now about graft, leaving nothing undone to discredit the social and foreign gains wrought by twenty years of liberalism. Theirs is a policy of opposition at any cost, and although if in power they would change little, they have adopted the most negative sort of conservatism...
...Bug Bag. To keep garbage pails or bathroom wastebaskets bug-free, Dallas' Health Guard Bag Co. began national distribution of a kraft paper bag, specially impregnated with Chlordane insecticide, which retains its bug-killing qualities for about two months. Price: seven...
...this year got its fingers in the Dewey & Almy Chemical Co. of Cambridge, Mass, with a $2,000,000 loan. Grace has also started two new big chemical plants in San Francisco, the Naco Fertilizer Co. of California and the Grace Agricultural Chemical Division, to process and sell bug and weed killers...
...Abacus. The Tokyo Exchange's day-to-day operation would bug many a Wall Streeter's eyes. Every day some 1,500 traders pack into a trading area only 75 feet square. On busy days, few can find room to move; they transmit their buying & selling signals by waving their bamboo fans. Their method of recording transactions is painfully cumbersome. One of the biggest brokerage houses has only one battered Remington Rand machine, does most of its arithmetic at machine speed on primitive abacuses. Frequently, its brokers and clerks have to work...
...bug that flaps and stings, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker raises the biggest welts when assisted by its enemies. Thanks to such help last week from an army that advanced too quickly and a general who retreated too easily-the Worker raised a big welt. It had smeared a Republican candidate for Congress right off the ballot. Brigadier General Elliott R. Thorpe (ret.), General MacArthur's wartime counter-intelligence chief) announced that he was "shocked and depressed," and as a result withdrew as a Republican candidate for Congress from Rhode Island...