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...step this up to 5,400 cars and trucks a day. Then the company should stop losing money on every car, start making a little. With luck, and an end to the steel strike, the company may reach this figure soon. If it does it will have the longest start it has had in a decade on G.M. and Chrysler. But Henry II's plans do not stop there...
...Adams; Jefferson established a new tradition of sending them to Congress to be read by a clerk. Woodrow Wilson, a forceful speaker, revived the personal appearance. This week Harry Truman went back to the conventional Jefferson style. But he set a precedent of his own by sending Congress the longest such document on record-25,000 words...
...best advertising slogans of the 20s and 30s was "the longest gangplank in the world." It meant the French Line-and Gallic cuisine, Gallic wines, service flavored with I-kiss-your-hand-Madame. Today the luxurious gangplank is abbreviated. Normandie, Champlain, Paris are all gone. Only lie de France, queen of luxury, and the slow-going De Grasse are left. Of the line's 53 freighters only 22 are still afloat. But the gangplank is to be rebuilt...
...temperature rose to 52° in Montreal, 57° in Toronto, 62° in Windsor. Carefree citizens kicked off their galoshes, doffed their heavy overcoats to enjoy one of the warmest, longest and most widespread January thaws in recorded weather history...
...massive a work, couched in the Murray style (the ex-governor is largely self-taught and his book is one of the longest literary rambles on record), poses certain problems for the lay reader. So Author Murray included a guide through the labyrinth. "First, read 'Post-Logue' at end of Book IX, Volume III; Second, then begin at Chapter A, Book IX, Volume III, and read all that Book; then, Third, begin first Chapter Volume I, keeping in mind parts first read...