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...head of it he placed burly Leon Henderson, most dynamic and executive of the New Deal coterie. Into Henderson's hands he placed powers which include authority to fix priorities on all civilian supplies, to withhold supplies from offending industries, to use priorities on transportation, to fix and publish maximum price schedules-and to advise the President to commandeer plants which fail to cooperate...
...prices, leaving them free only to fall. His reason for urging overall price regulation: attempts to fix individual prices...
...future we as a nation are to espouse every damsel who would be kept, be she designing or just plain willing, we're going to find ourselves in a hell of a fix...
...there are two types of fungi: 1) parasites, which feed on living plants and animals; 2) saprophytes, which feed on dead organisms. Pleasant are some fungi, such as the mushrooms (commercially grown on horse manure) which decorate steaks. Valuable are others, like the bacteria which decompose dead organisms, fix nitrogen in the soil, promote fermentation.* Harmful to man are fungi which attack crops...
...Hearst was supposed to be hopping mad. This young Orson Welles had made for RKO an insulting movie about his life called Citizen Kane. Led by his official ministress to the movie capital, Columnist Lolly Parsons, many a Hearst favor-seeker sent word to The Chief that they could fix everything. Soon the machinery of Hollywood pressure began to throttle Citizen Kane...