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...child with ulcers is much like an adult with ulcers: the brighter-than-average, tense type, who bottles up his emotions. (Dr. Girdany's patients did not kick and scream the way many kids would if offered a "barium breakfast," but suffered in silence.) Such children may carry their ulcer troubles into adult life -so that tense little tykes grow into big, tense tycoons...
...current Electrical Engineering, J. R. Anderson of Bell Telephone Laboratories tells about a new electronic device which may solve the memory problem. Its new feature is a thin slice of crystalline barium titanate. This peculiar stuff is "ferroelectric": i.e., if it is placed between two metal contacts, a considerable amount of electrical energy can be made to flow into the crystal and stay there. There is room for 2,500 dots of energy on a one-inch square of crystal...
...Barium and its subsidiaries got into trouble with OPS eleven months ago when they asked for a price increase on structural and plate steel. In a routine check of the companies' books, OPS auditors stumbled on $719,831.48 in charges for brokers' and finders' fees which had been illegally passed on to customers. Barium agreed, out of court, to pay a fine equal to the excess charges plus $291,292.15 in penalties...
...first time that Barium's Chairman Joseph A. Sisto has been in legal hot water. Born in Newark, Sisto went to work in Wall Street at 25, opened his own brokerage house in 1923. In the Depression he went bankrupt, and was suspended by the New York Stock Exchange until he satisfied his creditors by paying 50? on the dollar. In 1933 he founded Barium Steel. In 1938, his investment firm was booted out for good, after investigation showed that he had violated Exchange rules by juggling his books. Joe Sisto then concentrated on the steel business with...
Sisto expanded tiny Barium Steel rapidly by buying other small steel companies, paying for them chiefly out of their own quick assets. With the companies, he got plenty of Government contracts. Later, he got two RFC loans, one for $4,700,000, another for $1,650,000 with the help of Washington Lawyer Joseph Rosenbaum. Later, Senator Capehart charged that Central Iron & Steel had sold scarce steel to a pocket corporation which had in turn resold it in Chicago's grey market for $75,000 profit. Said he: "[The sale] was simply a payoff, and somebody made...