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...wrong made us great. My husband says I protest every time I get on the railways. Well, it's our job to protest. When I see some of our railway people with their jackets undone, I say to them: 'Who do you think you are -Italians? Button up your jackets...
...cannot help you get a tight dress over your head without catching three hooks and a button in your coiffure...
...trains remain the same; but this year's line of new accessories is disappointing. The best of the new developments is a cattle car that, at the press of a button, opens its doors and ejects a load of steers into a waiting corral...
...little clearer view of exactly what it is that the Defense Department wants before we, you might say, strait-jacket the economy." Essentially, the Administration had been more worried about keeping the $226 billion economy unruffled than about U.S. defenses. For example, instead of pressing the button on the much-talked-about "phantom orders"-which were supposed to put machine-tool factories to work on $750 million worth of war business almost overnight-Harry Truman's planners had been following the policy of gentling defense orders into the works so as not to disturb civilian production too much...
...little white frame Congregational church at Staffordville, Conn. (pop. 1,000) is the only Protestant church in town. Most of its 75 members-Italians, Poles, Czechs and some Yankees-work in the nearby button and belt factories...