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...same time keep their coastal farms and factories going. For the moment the accent had to be on the military phase. In their blitz of the past two weeks the Jews had tried to consolidate their coastal base of operations from Haifa to below Tel Aviv. To get rid of one Arab enclave, Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorists tried to capture Jaffa, which the U.N. partition plan gave to the Arabs. British troops checked the Irgun attack...
...Perfection. "To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow: the most unfortunate one for the painter as well as for the picture . . . The value of a work is in what...
Died. Dr. Rupert Blue, 79, onetime Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service (1912-20), who wiped out two bubonic-plague epidemics in San Francisco by getting rid of the carriers (flea-infested rats and ground squirrels); in Charleston...
...halt Communism is the reason most often given. Few Europeans believe that the U.S. is acting out of pure altruism. Nor do many Europeans believe the Communist line that the Marshall Plan is primarily intended to impose U.S. capitalism in Europe or to enable the U.S. to get rid of its goods in order to escape a depression. Frenchmen are more ready than other Europeans to believe the latter motive; even so, the 26% of Frenchmen who think the U.S. is trying to get rid of its goods are not as high a percentage as the Communist vote in recent...
Koons got his steel from K-F at mill cost. But to get it he had to pay over $600,000 for a lot of things K-F wanted to get rid of, e.g., jigs and dies for K-F's abandoned front-wheel-drive auto, aluminum scrap left over from experiments with car bodies. Koons told the committee he lost $500,000 on sale of the tie-in junk. But, through his steel, he netted a $14,000 final profit on the whole deal. The committee got an eye-opening account of how fast steel gets around...