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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, though still in the vertical stripes of a trusty, Bill Moody faced a possible $10,000 fine and two years in prison for breaking FCC rules. But Bill was not much worried: for long-ago robberies and other matters, he still had some 40 years to serve...
...their wild state, says Moncrieff in the current issue of Discovery, moths did not eat wool. Their larvae ate dead animals on which the females deposited their small white eggs. But as soon as man started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never...
...rocketlike hood and nose air intake that resembles the 1949 Ford. But Loewy's answer is in the sales. While most other independent car-makers were having rough going, Stukebaker sold more cars in September than any month in its history. From receivership less than 15 years ago, Studebaker has climbed back, is now the biggest independent-a smaller fourth to the Big Three...
...short, sharp paragraphs, the report dispelled any idea that the dollar shortage is something new; it started 35 years ago and has grown steadily worse ever since. Between 1914 and 1949, America's exports exceeded her imports by $101 billion. This "socalled favorable balance of trade," said the report, was largely paid for by $68 billion in Government loans & grants to Europe and more than $10 billion in private gifts. These grants "have in effect been unconscious subsidies to American export industries" at the expense of American taxpayers. The subsidies could be eliminated, or at least cut, only...
Since the Teapot Dome scandal 25 years ago, the oil empire of Edward L. Doheny has been in & out of the headlines. Last week the holdings of Doheny, who was acquitted of bribe charges, made news again, perhaps for the last time. The Los Nietos (literally, the relatives) Co., owned by Doheny's five grandchildren,* sold the empire's last oil-producing property. The holdings have oil reserves in the U.S. and Canada of at least 48 million barrels. The buyer: Union Oil Co. of California. The price: $22.4 million plus 600,000 shares (current value: $15 million...