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American women, observes Vogue severely, are too tense and that is bad-"nervous people acquire a tendency to stare and to clamp their jaws into an ugly, tight line." Vogue could fix that...
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...TIME THIS ISSUE REACHES our readers they will no doubt have changed their addresses-for the better, we hope. In the excitement that . . . will accompany the destruction of our planet, there will be a strong tendency to overlook the cause of the catastrophe and a failure to fix responsibility . . . Until we have a thorough investigation, voters are bound to wonder . . . Was it collision or collusion...
...would not "assert such jurisdiction." Less than a year later, Olds and the commission changed their minds. In October 1948 they started proceedings against the natural gas 'affiliate of Phillips Petroleum Co., which has the biggest gas reserves of any independent gas producer, to test their power to fix the price of gas in the field...
Capped Wells. Phillips and the other oil companies feared the threat to fix their gas prices, but what they feared more was that FPC would use the authority it won over gas as a lever to try to declare the whole oil industry a public utility-and thus control oil prices and profits also. (Since gas is a byproduct of oil development, the big oil companies are also big gas producers.) The result was that many of the big producers refused to sell gas to the interstate pipelines. They pumped the gas back into the ground, sold it only within...