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...Good & Bad. This concentration has both its good and bad points for the long pull. The distillers will probably be able to cut down wine distribution costs (since wine and liquor are usually retailed through the same outlets) and advertise wines in a bigger & better way. Already Schenley is on the air with a 4 5-minute nationwide radio show to boost wine consumption. On this score even the independent wineries are happy. Said San Gabriel Vineyard Co.: "The big fellows will publicize wine as it has never been publicized before...
...Individual initiative and enterprise, and government responsibility for the general welfare, will continue to pull in double harness for a better life for our people. . . . We need the driving force of self-interest to get most of the work of the world done...
...Inchball, you have gone and now we must follow. Your innate light alone will join us for that triumphant brawl. Only you, Inch, can pull us out and send us on with your louder copy call. And behind us in the woods we leave the babes, forcing them to scheme for the breath of life. It is over, dear Inch, for us, a raging finger-snap, a dream before the alarm, and we leave behind the children, timidly laughing in the bushes...
Having long since proved that she can pull the plug on any three other musicomedy voices, Ethel Merman today puts herself across as brilliantly as she does a song. In Something for the Boys she is everywhere, doing everything. She torches and trollops, blares and beguiles, and late in the evening she and Actress Laurence, as a pair of wacky Indian women, bring down the house larruping through By the Mississinewa...
Henry J. Kaiser realized another dream last week. At Fontana, Calif., 45 miles east of Los Angeles in the heart of the wine and walnut belt, he watched his wife pull a switch and blow in his new 1,200-ton blast furnace, named in her honor "the Bess." The blowing in of the pig-iron furnace, just eight months after Henry Kaiser broke ground for her where a pig-breeding farm had once flourished, meant that the West Coast for the first time in its history had a fully integrated steel plant...