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McCrory. Operating 203 5?? to $1 retail units in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, the South and Midwest, McCrory Stores Corp. slipped into bankruptcy in 1933, came under the broad roof of Section 77b a year and a half later. Old John G. McCrory, who founded the chain at Scottdale, Pa. in 1882, resigned as board chairman to be free to bid for the bankrupt properties. But in the stormy annals of McCrory's reorganization it was not John G. McCrory who played the major role but two brothers named George Keenan Morrow and Frederick Morrow...
...which would have been a world's record except for a soft following breeze. In the broad jump Peacock cleared 26 ft. 3 in., ? in. better than the currently accepted world's record and ¾ in. better than Owens' best last week, but 5?? in. short of the record Owens set last...
...three continents grain traders were confounded by the most extraordinary piece of news about the Dominion pool since it was started in 1924. The moment the news was known a dark storm of selling broke over the Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City markets, tumbling prices the limit of 5?? in one day. In Liverpool, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Winnipeg, wheat also went down in confusion. Other commodities, notably corn and rye, slid off sharply. The news: After weathering years of economic crises, farm unrest, public criticism and political skulduggery, the Canadian Wheat Pool was about to unload its holdings...
...least one film actress, Binnie Barnes, is credited with a larger shoe than Greta Garbo's ? 7½AA. A cursory survey of other foot sizes produces the following: Claire Dodd 7AAA, Helen Vinson 7AA, Joan Blondell 6C, Marion Davies 6B, Carole Lombard 5??A, Norma Shearer 5??A, Jean Harlow...
Next day the meticulous Times made this correction: "John V. W. Reynders did not borrow a nickel from Andrew W. Mellon yesterday. . . . Mr. Reynders did indeed ask Mr. Mellon for a loan of 5?? but his employer ... did not have the money...