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Also beyond the budget are uncounted hundreds of other expenditure bills-everything from a crossroads postoffice on up. Biggest of the independent bills is the veterans' pension plan which Mississippi's John Rankin rammed through the House; the VA estimates it would cost an average of $1.4 billion a year...
More Fish them Boston. By now it is probably the third biggest city in the U.S. -more than 2,000,000 people live within its far-flung city limits, more than 4,000,000 in its metropolitan area-and it has gotten pinker, more sprawling, more like a Los Angeles promoter's dream with every advancing mile...
...small, green-carpeted room of San Francisco's Bank of America, one of the biggest sugar deals in West Coast history was quietly sealed. Last week, for $5,250,000, husky, handsome Charles Edouard de Bretteville, 36, and associates announced that they had picked up the choicest pieces of the disintegrating J.D. & A.B. Spreckels companies, a sprawling empire founded by bearded Claus Spreckels in 1863, which once held some 50 companies worth $60 million...
...start, President de Bretteville plans to make the Spreckels Sugar Co., which is already the biggest beet-sugar produce? (286,705,000 lbs. in 1948) in California and the fifth biggest in the U.S.,* more efficient. Altogether he is spending $1,800,000 on new equipment, plans to obtain new capital for expansion by making Spreckels Companies a public corporation and issuing stock...
...yards), then gingerly shadowed the big ship by radar through the night until the British battle cruiser Hood and the new battleship Prince of Wales could go into action. What happened next shocked British witnesses and was soon to shock the world. One minute the swift battle cruiser Hood, biggest ship of the English fleet, was methodically firing from her 15-inch guns as she closed with the enemy. Two or three minutes later, she had sunk from sight. At around 25,000 yards, the Bismarck had sent the Hood down with only five or six salvoes. With another dozen...