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...alert for economic injustice, had the answer. In a front-page diagram, PM traced the history of a $7.84 bottle of Scotch from cask to customer, showed that the semiprecious liquid leaves British shores, bottled and labeled, at 97?, reaches U.S. shores at only $1.04. A sizable chunk, $2.32¼, goes into the U.S. Treasury in custom and excise duties; but the biggest slice ($3.14) goes to U.S. retailers...
...Crowd Psychology in terms of a revival meeting once held in Boston by the eminently practical Aimee Semple MacPherson. Even the professional resenters of classroom humor avowed it was better than the comics, but, unobtrusively, each step in Aimee's spellbinding was made to correspond to a formidable chunk of psychological verbiage...
...bright lawyer named Manuel Ramon Navarro Patron had shown the way. Sent to Bogota to lobby for Cartagena (pop. 100,000), he had campaigned so well that by last week the Government had agreed to channel to Cartagena a big chunk of the Magdalena River traffic that had lately overcrowded Barranquilla's docks. Lawyer Navarro also got Government backing for a modern $2,500,000 sewage system, plus promises of new Government buildings and a railroad to tap Cartagena's hinterland...
...these pictures, which accounted for a big chunk of the library's $600,000 annual business. Hollywood could easily pull the carpet out from under Bell & Howell any time it wanted to. When Matty Fox began dickering a month ago, it looked as if the time had come. Hence United World got the library almost for nothing: $600,000, to be paid over a ten-year period. Gloated Matty Fox: "We'll pay for this cow out of its milk...
...herds, the border might remain closed "for several years." For Mexico's brand-new Government, that was a real jolt. The half million head of cattle that annually went to U.S. markets had meant prosperity for the northern states; and cattle export duties had made up a big chunk of the federal budget...