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...lies about Texas. It is first among the states in the production of oil, gas, mohair, wool, cattle and Angora goats. It has 132,000 oil wells, three highly regarded city symphony orchestras and a housewife who recently ordered a bracelet bangle designed to look like a kitchen sink with diamonds dripping from the faucet. It has the Cullen Foundation, which has set aside $160 million worth of oil properties to endow medical, educational and charitable institutions. One Texan has a million-dollar-a-week income, and so many others have so much less that the per-capita income...
Grace may sink as much as $75 to $100 million in petrochemicals, may some day have as much as half of the company's assets in the industry. But Grace has no intention of stopping all expansion in South America. Last week he was putting the finishing touches on another one of his pet projects: a $5,000,000 DDT plant which the company will soon build, probably in Brazil...
...past two years it has suited the purposes of Colonel Pearson to smear at least 2,000 persons . . . It mathematically follows that Colonel Pearson has manufactured . . . 48,000 units of mendacity. That is mass production on a massive scale! The miracles of mass production achieved by General Motors sink into insignificance...
...three holes down to Harbert's 2-under-par 70. Turnesa, as spunky as he is chunky (5 ft. 6 in., 155 Ibs.), refused to give up. Not until the 32nd hole of the scheduled 36-hole final did Jim Turnesa even the match-and he had to sink a 15-foot birdie putt to do it. Said one knowing spectator:"That little runt won't let Harbert off the hook...
...took a while for this sharp assertion of presidential power to sink in. Then the newsmen returned to the point. Did the President mean he wouldn't be governed by congressional action? Shot back Truman: Congress can't tell the Executive what...