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...Plug the Hole? Just who discovered this corporation fade-out is a mystery...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt, Indian summering at Newport, missed some excitement in her Fifth Avenue Manhattan mansion. A fire started in a bedroom wall plug, ran along a baseboard, up the draperies of a dressing table, ruined a rug and a few fine feathers. Cornelius Jr. sounded the alarm...
...temporarily, petitioned NLRB for a strike vote in 96 plants of General Motors Corp. The Board forthwith scheduled the vote for Oct. 24. The strike, certain to be voted by U.A.W.'s membership, would take 325,000 workers off the job in the industry which is the spark plug of postwar prosperity...
Phase Two merely added a single non-explanatory word. Now the plug was "Remember- V.D.M.T." By last week, the secret was out, and most G.I.s could be expected to remember...
...insisted that "my hair, eyes, nose, and 'especially my spirit' were pure African." But while Eslanda was trying to become primitive, all the natives she met were hoping to become civilized. They feared that it would take "1,000 years." Eslanda, getting in a bit of a plug for ideology, told them that the Soviet Union had civilized its primitives in a mere ten or 20 years, and that in Russia "people of all races, colors, and creeds . . . work out their lives in dignity, safety, and comradeship." The astonished natives had never heard of a "country which looked...