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...Weed Makes Good
...15th-Century Italian sculpture, medieval Gothic tapestries, ceramics and an assortment of furniture equaled only in the Rockefeller and Hamilton Rice collections. The late John L. Severance had done his picking & choosing with an eye to the needs of the Cleveland museum, so the museum found little to weed out. Cleveland now has one of the best-balanced and richest art collections to be found in any museum in the Middle West...
...masses of the people. Even when Californians were still stunned by the sudden attack on Pearl Harbor, there was great sympathy for the Isei and Nisei [alien and citizen Japs] placed in this tragic position through no fault of their own. Most Californians were content to let the FBI weed out the undesirables...
...mill murder story alive for weeks. The right to sensational journalism is indisputable. Newspapers are a business like any other business, and like any other business they depend on public demand. Freedom of the press pre-supposes variety in journalism, and it's the job of the individual to weed the good from the bad. But when the press distorts this freedom by reporting a war effort with the same kind of "color" it applies to Hollywood blurbs, we may question its patriotism and suspect untimely pre-occupation with the circulation-sheets...
Because Colt's Patent Fire Arms factory in Hartford was bogged down with other orders, High Standard just twelve months ago received a British order for 12,000 such guns. Tiny High Standard had World War I-seasoned talent,* but neither facilities nor tools. On a suburban weed patch in Hamden it built a seven-acre, modern steel & glass factory in four months. Into a market already picked bare, it dispatched its experts to find machine tools...