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...groups, biggest profit-gainers were the steelmakers. No. 1 feast or famine industry, steelmen are now gorged, at practical capacity. No. 3 producer, bald, tough Tom Girdler's Republic cleared a record $6,184,000 in the third quarter, up from $2,815,000 in the same quarter of 1939. With preferred dividends being earned 32 times over, his conservative directors last week paid all back dividends, planned to buy the shares for cancellation, thus clearing the way for common dividends. Like many a defense industry's preferred stocks, the price of Republic's has tripled since...
...money had Abraham Flexner. For 30 years the fattest moneybags in the U. S. opened to his touch. He loosened up no mean part of the Rockefeller, Carnegie, Eastman and Morgan fortunes, channeled them into U. S. education. Last week, in his autobiography, I Remember (Simon & Schuster; $3.75), billiard-bald, wizened Dr. Flexner, 73, explained...
Grover Jones was a round, ruddy, bespectacled little man with a rim of reddish hair around his shiny bald head. Pounding up & down a room, swinging a long cigar through the air, he could tell the tallest tale in Hollywood. Inside the brick wall circling his two-acre property he kept a pony, a goat, 14 English sheep dogs, ducks, geese, chickens, ravens, down-&-out friends and relations, his father, his mother, his wife Sue. His profession was screenwriting, for which he received as much as $3,500 a week, $40,000 a script. He reached Hollywood from West Terre...
...paunchy little man stood quietly behind the marble rostrum, uneasy in his unaccustomed formal clothes, his shrewd, warm eyes downcast, his bald head shining dully in the soft glow from the vast skylight. Inches from his right hand was the gavel, the symbol of the authority he would now wield as Speaker of the House, until death or defeat of the Democrats. Sam Rayburn, 58, of Bonham, Tex., bachelor, shorthorn breeder, and for seven years a moderator of the New Deal, was waiting to speak his piece...
...destroyers bought from the U. S. would be given names of towns which lie in both Britain and the U. S., that the first flotilla would be given the initial C, and that the flotilla leader would be called Churchill. The Prime Minister busily leaned and fumbled, but the bald top of his head blushed...