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...Upward & Onward. At a special meeting last week, Cage plumped for still more expansion. Said he to his stockholders: "Folks, when you buy a hog, you don't starve him. You fatten him up. It's the same with this company. We've got to fatten this hog. We've got to fatten this company." The union capitalists promptly approved his plan to buy or set up union-owned insurance companies in most of the 48 states and to build a $1,000,000, five-story office building in downtown Dallas. Cage knows there...
PATCHIN PLACE is a little street of three-story brick houses, with an iron gate at one end and a fence at the other, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. From this street, where the tree of heaven which also grows in Brooklyn thrusts bravely upward from narrow sidewalks, a man emerges almost every day bound for Washington Square, a few blocks away. A weathered hat rides high on a head seeking to soar from squared shoulders loosely draped in an old jacket, from the left pocket of which protrudes a notebook. The face under the hat takes daylight...
...they like the Sermon on the Mount best when it is translated into free soup kitchens or psychiatric counseling. High on the mountain above them are their theological archenemies, the "orthodox" and the "neo-orthodox"; clustered around their patriarch, Swiss Theologian Karl Earth, they turn their faces firmly upward and preach the Word in their private language; for them the world is hopelessly evil and Christian social reformers hopelessly naive; not men's actions but belief in God's Word can bring salvation...
...credit came to Dr. Penney. Early one morning, as he watched over a special TV screen in the bowels of a naval vessel, he saw a bright flash, like a setting sun, light up the skies, followed by a dense, turbulent cloud that hugged the ground and slowly zigzagged upward in a Z shape curiously unlike the usual mushroom. Smaller than the usual U.S. blast, it was reportedly designed to verify a new technique aimed at reducing the amount of fissionable material needed to produce an explosion...
...quarter of the current fiscal year the U.S. had gone nearly $4 billion in the red, and would probably be $10 billion in the hole by next July. As in the past, the deficit-and the creation of new money to foot the bill-was sure to mean more upward pressure on prices...