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Unforgivable Debt. The RFC bluntly rejected Henry Kaiser's plea that it write off $85 million of the $123 million it had loaned him during the war to build his Fontana (Calif.) steel plant. Kaiser had contended that the writeoff would be in line with the $162 million loss...
Ailing Bob Hannegan was in California, chatting with National Committeeman Ed Pauley and coaxing San Francisco into bidding for the Democratic convention next summer. When reporters tracked him down, he finally confirmed the recurrent rumor that he might resign as Democratic National Chairman.
The auctioneer's voice boomed out the cow's pedigree: "ZangwilPs Bijou Lass, the daughter of Throaty Contralto by that great sire Glittering Generalization." The bidding stopped at $320. "Before I could extricate myself," writes Sidney Joseph Perelman, "the auctioneer had brought me to my knees and was...
Farley recalled: "I had the feeling that the President ... had flattered this Prince of the Church into doing his bidding."
The housewife's problems changed. Last week, before a Republican Congress could do it, the Department of Agriculture ended sugar rationing for consumers. The housewife could tear up her tattered ration books, look her grocer in the eye, demand five, ten, or 20 lbs. of sugar. Price controls were...