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...more than a year, the Chinese Communists have been using a shrewd technique to extort foreign exchange from the hard core of remaining companies, and provide jobs for some 5,000 Chinese employees. Shanghai's Ewo (translation: Happy Harmony) Breweries Ltd., for instance, once as famed in the Far East as Schlitz in Milwaukee, is an economic hostage. Ewo survived for a time under the Communists. But last year the Reds boosted the prices that Ewo had to pay for raw materials, then ruled that all its production must be sold through a state monopoly at a price...
...Sorokin gets fed up and quits Sleep Tite. taking his luscious redhead with him, but the exact resolution of the plot isn't really important to Author Bissell or anyone else. It is the natural talk, the sure feeling for the pace of Midwestern life, the shrewd humor of such scenes as the union picnic, that make 7½ Cents, slight as it is, an oddly likable piece of Americana...
Continental Campaign. It was Ben who started the campaign to put out a new Continental because he wanted a prestige car for the company, and he quickly persuaded Billy to join him. Billy was a shrewd ally. Recently, before the formal monthly meeting of the Administrative Committee. Billy buttonholed each member separately and asked: "Don't you think it's a good idea to build a Continental?" Most agreed, although Breech thought Ford ought to stick to money-making products. At the meeting, Billy clinched things by saying: "Nearly all of you favor building a Continental...
...sort of novel that lavishly scatters half a dozen subplots and a small army of minor characters. Novelist Tennant tosses in a raucous riot scene in the girls' reformatory, a wild chapter in which two young racketeers try to burglarize their boss's home, a shrewd snapshot of middle-class ladies cooing over the tough little delinquents they are eager to save...
...services, Eisenhower (for unification) and Radford (against) were bitter foes, but Eisenhower has since come to admire and trust Radford's clear thinking and professional ability. A strong second contender for chairman: General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, 61, the Air Force's first chief of staff, a shrewd strategist, who would have to come out of retirement to take...