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...Eisenhower declined, Pepper announced his own candidacy. "This is no gesture," he said grandiosely. "This is a fight." But the fight was just talk. The fall of 1948 saw him campaigning earnestly for Truman. And the election of Truman saw Pepper tucking himself safely back in the Fair Deal nest...
Last week he added 13 more restaurants to the trademarked henhouse, making a total nest of 245 restaurants all across the U.S. that pay him royalties of 2? on each order of chicken served. By last week some 335 million orders of chicken had been sold under his royalty setup. Osborne also sells or leases to his franchise customers everything from patented chicken fryers to water glasses bearing his trademark (a design showing a rooster standing in a clump of grass with a broken golf club...
...supplanting horses in our towns and cities, thereby depriving the sparrows of their food ... is correct, in part. But it is not the lack of grain found in horse manure that has done the damage-it has been the gradual disappearance of the sparrow's favorite and essential nest-building material (straw and hay) used in bedding and food for horses...
Cackling as proudly as a hen just off the nest, Cities Service Co. last week took full-page advertisements in 175 U.S. newspapers. It pointed out that in 1949 it had boosted its sales to a record $582.5 million, making it one of the top ten U.S. oil companies and one of the four biggest U.S. suppliers of natural gas. The company, said its strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs.) President W. (for William) Alton Jones, 59, was in the "strongest position in its history...
...another Briggs room, a mouse climbs up and down the window curtain at will, taking tinsel from a plant pot for its nest. "We're afraid its pregnant," stated the occupants...