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Commissioners themselves do not sit in on all cases, depend on examiners to brief them and justify their decisions. Many commission officials have little knowledge of how to conduct a hearing on industry's problems. At a recent CAB hearing, American Airlines President C. R. Smith snapped at a CAB counsel: "I don't know what you're talking about, and neither do you." When the record has accumulated, often to a height of five or six feet, the commissioners do not have time to read all or even most of it. Lawyers often take advantage...
...going "the country can expect a total collapse of its economy by 1960." The whole Ulbricht philosophy of export-at-any-price, and of imposing impossible production goals upon industry, had led "to an economy of permanent crisis." The country was grievously short of raw materials, can not even depend on the cheap coal that Poland now sells to the West...
Tonight they will be ready, and, as Wilson commented, "It'll all depend on the breaks." With so many records and titles at stake, the Crimson will have to get some of those breaks...
...approach to manned space flight is to put a man in a rocket and depend on a parachute or other drag-making device to ease him back to earth. Another approach is to fit a piloted airplane with rocket motors powerful enough to toss it out of the atmosphere. It will have wings of a sort for gliding, and the pilot will land it like a conventional but extra-hot airplane...
...great extent, the Crimson's success will depend on its ability to block out Fulcomer and Belz under the offensive backboard. On defense the Tigers play a man-to-man, which means that Fulcomer will probably cover Bryant Danner, whose rebounding has been spotty this season...