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...next time you are in New York City you may be interested to know that you can hire an armored car at a moment's notice, get rid of a half dozen tired neckties by mailing them to an outfit that sends you (for $1) six different ones in return, be taken care of at midnight at the "Dawn Patrol Beauty Salon," or rent a psychoanalytical motion picture to help you understand yourself...
...billions of marks now clogging Western Germany's inflated, paralyzed economy. The rate of exchange would be announced later, but the Germans would probably get only one new mark for ten old ones. Anticipation of the currency reform started Germans on a frantic buying spree to get rid of their old money...
Zealous students had tried to get rid of the offending words, but Rivera had simply painted them back in. Two days later some other zealot sneaked to the Del Prado Hotel, scraped out the words once more, and added three long scratches to Rivera's portrait of himself as a boy. At that, the government stepped in, boarded up the dining room with three thicknesses of heavy lumber, and assigned it a 24-hour police guard...
That did it. Rivera was condemned by practically everyone in town-except the Communists, who prepared to forgive him his Trotskyite sins and welcome him back with open arms. Roman Catholic committees demanded that the Del Prado mural be changed, or got rid of, as Rivera's Reforma Hotel and Rockefeller Center murals had been...
...portion of its time and attention in solving the problems of the ball-point pen that certain developments in its conventional . . . business were, perhaps, under-emphasized." From now on, Eversharp was going to concentrate on its conventional business. The trade thought this meant that Eversharp was going to get rid of some of its plants, plug its mechanical pencils, standard pens and Schick razors...