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...burlap shortage, which had U.S. bag-users hot & bothered months ago, was no longer a worry last week. Reason: cotton-and paper-bag production had zoomed fast enough to plug the entire gap. Cotton bags are just as good as burlap; the only catch is that they cost 10-25% more (17? for a cotton potato bag v. 15? for burlap...
...monologue and weird recorded music. A favorite of Robert Benchley, James Thurber, Stuart Chase, Morgan follows a simple formula. He breaks all the rules. As a result he is the envy of every announcer who ever gagged politely while rolling off an unctuous commercial. Once when reading a plug for Adler Elevator Shoes "Knockabouts come in ten colors . . . beige, cinnamon, blue . . ."), Morgan ad-libbed remarks on the probable habits of a man who would wear blue shoes, remarked "I wouldn't be seen in them at a dogfight." When the sponsor objected that his approach was "negative," Morgan retracted...
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...plug this gap workmen are now digging up local pipelines in the Southwest, assembling them into a makeshift cross-country pipeline. In addition oilmen have asked once more for a 1,400-mile pipeline from Texas to New Jersey, which has been twice turned down by WPB and predecessors for lack of steel. Finally oilmen have still another idea: let the Navy convoy tankers up the East Coast. But that is something the Navy is not likely to do until it has more warships or fewer places to fight...
When tall, rasping, grim Robert F. Rich, who needs only a plug hat to look like the cartoons of Mr. Prohibition, departs, the House will no longer hear his oft-repeated demand: "Where are we going to get the money?" For years his wrathful voice, like the chorus in a Greek tragedy, has trumped a falsetto doom. Rich thinks the New Deal communist to the core, believes Roosevelt led the U.S. into...