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Going, Going . . . W.A.A. will try a new idea to get rid of the large number of surplus war plants left. Three of the plants -in Toledo, Harrisburg, and Rochester- will be auctioned off in April, at the sites, by Manhattan's Joseph P. Day, Inc. If they bring a fair price, auctioneers will sell the rest of W.A.A.'s real estate...
...Gentleman's Agreement" depicts a true and pressing problem, but only one of the many problems we have to face. Bur nothing is done about them. People talk about them or write about them like this, but they either are afraid or too busy to help get rid of them...
...king less and one "people's republic" more-though the people had nothing to do with it. Nor was Michael's abdication, as many a U.S. and British sob sister declared, the climax of a lightning-swift and star-crossed romance. The Communists had decided to get rid of Michael long before he met his wistful, willowy Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...
Leather-tough old Vallabhbhai Patel, Minister in Charge of States Affairs, last week saw a chance to get rid of some of the princely states that pimple India. In little Nilgiri, near the east coast, Hindu Congress Party members who live in towns on the plains have been trying to get rid of their maharaja and join the Dominion. But most of his subjects are broad-faced, pug-nosed aborigines, who fled to the eastern hills nearly 40 centuries ago when Aryans invaded India. These near-naked tribesmen came down from the hills on the warpath (at the maharaja...
...explained. He had sold 50,000 trees wholesale, and figured that within a few years he would be selling 100,000 a year. Following precept with example, Elliott & wife Faye (in a mink coat and jodhpurs) juiced up the sales by doing some hawking in person-and got rid of 500 trees...