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...anticipating that the day is not far off when the average family will own its own airplane, purchased for about $100 -- and that the availability of such private aircraft will allow for the dispersal of housing over a vastly wider area rather than the concentration of the population in cities. "Each family can hope and expect," Truman declared, "to have sufficient ground for its children to play and for the planting of fruit trees and gardens,"
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("Whatta ya MEAN cattle not included? Well who reads the fine print???")
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Supply chain management 1943 style.
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The dismissal of a petition for involuntary bankruptcy filed against the operators of the Childs restaurant chain is expected today following the revelation that two of the three signers of that petition are not actual creditors. The report by Special Master Robert P. Stevenson in Manhattan Federal Court that those two signers were "dummies" used by the company itself in a scheme to sell Childs Company debentures short.
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So little is new, even in financial corruption.
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("Look, I LIKE PIRATES, all right? It's a thing I have!")
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Our safe-word will be "eyepatch."
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"I ONLY WENT TO THE RACETRACK THAT ONE TIME!"
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"Don't ruin this for us, Annie, with your infernal questions. Who cares what happened to their car. Did I mention to you that we are out of range of both the Japanese and German bombers here? Think big picture, Kid!"
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"Wait'll he sees what I've been doing with old birth certificates!"
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The parents will really lynch you if she starts selling the marriage licenses to the teenage boys and girls.