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...Pittsburgh meeting" was the Federal Council's biennial meeting, where one speaker, Dr. Mark A. Dawber, executive secretary of the Home Missions Council, said: "The Roman Catholic Church is influencing public affairs and the community pattern in a much more vital and deliberate way than Protestantism, [ which ] is too divided to influence the . . . pattern on a national scale...
...they will, if Sears can manage. Following its U.S. pattern, Sears will launch an unprecedented low-price selling campaign aimed right at Mexico's mighty masses. Items on the new market...
...enemy's whole behavior in Manila followed a planned dog-in-the-manger pattern. Early in December, a month before the landings at Lingayen Gulf, the Japs had installed demolition charges in large buildings. Flimsy warehouses had been stocked with drums of gasoline. Forty-eight hours after U.S. forces entered northern Manila. Jap demolition engineers pressed the buttons. Electrically connected charges went off in series. The main business district-eight blocks of the Calle Escolta-began to burn. There was no water pressure to fight the fires. Many Filipinos looked on apathetically, made no move to help U.S. soldiers...
...bought the Mobeley Hotel in Cisco, Tex., on the eve of the Texas oil boom. This deal set the future Hilton pattern-step in when the boom is starting and the property value low, make it pay, unload at the peak. He applied this pattern to a long series of small Texas and New Mexico hotels, putting the profits of one into the purchase price of the next...
...convention-wise Chicago, the pattern of last week's annual Spring & Summer Apparel Market and Gift Show was familiar enough. Some 4,000 buyers of women's and children's apparel and accessories, gifts, china, etc., for the nation's big & little stores crowded hotel lobbies and trooped through bedroom suites made over into salesrooms. As usual, they scrutinized the tall, leggy models and sailed into the free drinks. But times had changed; they were not really enjoying themselves...