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...tons, the British sold 30,000 tons just before domestic ceilings were removed. But since then they have failed to offer a single ton. Meanwhile, prices on the New York Cocoa Exchange have soared from 14.5? to 19.75? a pound. In their dingy offices on Manhattan's Beaver Street, cocoamen fumed: "The squeeze...
...year-old veteran and holder of the Purple Heart, Moravec was graduated in 1941 from Beaver Falls, Pa., High School, where he played on the football, basketball, and baseball teams. He entered Lehigh University in the fall of 1941 and spent two years at that institution, during which time he was first-string fullback on the Lehigh eleven...
Beaverbrook's guide to the aspiring poor was printed not in his own gigantic Express, but in an obscure London weekly, the Recorder, which failed to tell its readers that the articles had been written and published 20 years before. His smart Publisher William Brittain, once briefly a Beaver boy himself, had persuaded Lord Beaverbrook to let him reprint the articles free. Result: the Recorder's circulation jumped from 10,000 to 40,000. If no one else made a fortune out of the Beaver's advice, Publisher Brittain seemed likely...
...ever got a divorce from Wife No. 2. He had been just too extravagant, Virginia's mother told the newspapers. Mother had had to put her foot down: "Not mink, I told him. . . . He begged so hard, I finally allowed him to buy her a seven-skin beaver . . . $1,500. . . ." Suddenly the wind shifted. Said lovelorn Virginia to the newspapermen: "I've changed my mind...
...Stetson, the sickly son of a New Jersey hatter, joined an expedition to Pike's Peak for his health. On the trip he startled his companions by scraping fur off raw hides, chewing it up, spitting the juice through his teeth to produce crude felt. The broad-brimmed beaver hat that he made with the felt was the butt of all the camp's jokes. But on the way back Stetson sold it to a St. Louis bullwhacker for $5 in gold, thereupon decided to go into business...