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...done last November, the pipeline had turned out to be an investor's dream. In the first two months, Chicago Corp. and its pipeline-building subsidiary, Tennessee Gas & Transmission Co., took out $357,000 in profits. Yet last week, Chicago Corp. took the first step towards getting rid of its prize baby. Reason: the Federal Power Commission was probing to see if the building of the pipeline by Tennessee Gas had turned Chicago Corp. into a natural gas company...
P.O.W.s also lost their ready-made cigarets; from now on they must roll their own. Then they were ordered to substitute the American for the Nazi straight-arm salute, get rid of all Nazi flags, pictures and emblems in their barracks...
...American and the other lines were not willing to get rid of competition through a community company. They were frank about their reasons: 1) wealthy Pan Am would control it, and 2) Juan Trippe would run it. (One airline spokes-man even went so far as to say that Trippe was the only possible candidate...
Emil: A foul traitor purposely failed to destroy one bridge, as he had been ordered. The half-witted and stupid Americans came across that bridge, and in cowardly manner marched around and past our brave armies. ... In order to rid our holy soil of this vermin, we made a softer peace than our heroic victories warranted...
...were all right. They had schistosomiasis, a tropical disease the Army needed to know more about. He had to deliver them to Walter Reed Hospital fast-the disease diminished in a temperate climate. As things were, it would be a social as well as a military pleasure to be rid of them...