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...wages, giving away $100 bills, warning his employes never to marry, in general behaving with the gruffness expected of him. Last January, after two years of bitter wrangling with the village of Saranac Lake which has threatened to put up a municipal power plant, crotchety Phelps Smith was suddenly stricken with pleural pneumonia and died...
...share . . . and might be materially less." Forthwith the Governors ordered PPX suspended from trading. In subsequent over-the-country trading PPX promptly plummeted to 37? per share. It was one of the few times in the history of the Exchange that the Governors on their own initiative had stricken a stock from trading to save suckers from their own folly...
Singing the glory of Arizona's climate, landscape and cowboys, Author Priestley less resembles a coyote than an oldtime prophet. The prophet's rhapsodies change to a jeremiad when he tackles U. S. women, Manhattan, Hollywood, the stricken man-made landscape between, the profligate waste of natural resources, the "chilly dank hell" of moral decay rising from U. S. indifference to its gangsters, its rich men and their political ineptitudes...
...prevent blindness." Representative Virginia Ellis Jenckes of Indiana tried to soothe Committeeman Biederman's agitated scruples by suggesting that eye treatment was very little different from giving baby a bath. Soothed or not, the District subcommittee upheld medical science over Christian Science, recommended that the Senate amendment be stricken from the bill...
...enough to get the system going, with the Government (i.e., the general taxpayer) bearing administrative costs. Lest this seem a new and greater bounty to farmers, the committee pointed out that in the past ten years, exclusive of AAA benefits, the Government has paid $615,937,000 to stricken farmers in the shape of Relief, feed loans, seed loans. Crop insurance would be voluntary, and so far farmers have shown no great enthusiasm for it. But Secretary Wallace has long waxed enthusiastic about the "ever-normal granary" or "Joseph" plan for which it is a starter, so John Farmer...