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...From January to June, as Senate majority leader, he had worked with just one goal in mind: the Republican Administration must be made to succeed. It was probably the last chance to reestablish the power of the G.O.P. For that goal, the political essential was party unity. Taft, every inch a partisan and a politician, knew that, and he had worked with all his driving energy for harmony between White House and Congress...
...with a spoon, is the sweetest thing there is. Asked this summer to name the foods she would most like to have on a desert island. Shirley said: "Fudge, brownies, chocolate ice cream and orange juice." She loves television, often eats her meals from a tray before her 17-inch screen, and races home from the theater to watch late-at-night TV movies, particularly British ones. She keeps a sketching pad handy, for doodling during the commercials. A stack of drugstore novels on her bed table serves as insurance against insomnia. She has relatively little interest in politics...
...Platte Pipe Line Co. will open a $62 million, 1,149-mile, 20-inch oil pipeline next week that will give Rocky Mountain oil producers a big new market for their crude. The line, which runs from eastern Wyoming to refineries near St. Louis, is capable of delivering 110,000 barrels...
...During World War II, RFC invested and lent more than $9 billion to build 2,000 war plants, including a synthetic rubber industry, the Geneva steel plant in Utah, the Willow Run bomber plant, the Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines. It spent another $2 billion on raw materials to keep them out of Axis hands, spent $2.8 billion stockpiling strategic metals and minerals...
...small talk. Syd is masterful enough as a movie-balcony Romeo. But before Linda will agree to name the day, she sits down with Syd for a serious talk about their future: "Syd. what about yourself? You got .any ambitions?" Replies Syd: "Well. I aim to get 18-inch upper arms. If I do, I might have a go at some of the competitions. See me as Mr. East London, can you? Maybe Mr. Britain, you never know . . . But mind, I'll probably not get beyond 17-and-a-quarter...