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...Harry Truman and Jimmy Byrnes have gone over to the British. Observer Roosevelt adds a footnote: "'The biggest thing,' Father commented [after Teheran], 'was in making clear to Stalin that the United States and Great Britain were not allied. . . . I think we've got rid of that idea, once...
...overall program for getting rid of most of the estimated $30 billion in surpluses by next June includes a $545 million budget-$16 million for advertising alone...
...task of softening up three wealthy, crotchety old men (Banker Edward Arnold, Doctor Lionel Barrymore, Judge Lewis Stone). She owns a piece of property containing an ancient oak tree, which happens to be the home of her friends, the Wee People. Her three selfish, unimaginative guardians want to get rid of the property, uproot the tree. And dispossess the pixies? Not as long as Margaret and her sweet old drunken manservant (Thomas Mitchell) can prevent...
...veterans' families, sharing 40 rooms (and 15 bathrooms) in Kildare Barracks, settled down to spend the winter. They chipped in $25-a-month rent a family, will use it to clean and paint up the place, called in exterminators to get rid of swarms of cockroaches. Said V.H.L. Leader Hanratty: "What we did was illegal. But . . . these places belonged to the Government. Who's the Government but us? . . . We took what was ours...
...swoop, War Assets Administration managed to get rid of 20,960 war planes, almost all it had left. WAA accepted bids of $6,582,156 for the lot, which had originally cost...