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...charge: giving a San Francisco attorney a worthless $30,000 check last December as binder on a Hawaiian ranch...
...found it hard to be so forgiving. While Pro-Regent Carson (who turned out to be a 19-year-old Van Nuys, Calif., printer) lamented the $2,000-a-month salary he had been promised, Mrs. Felzer fretted over the $10,000 she had paid Chinn Ho as a binder on the big deal. Said Wheeler-Dealer Ho wonderingly: "It's like a fairy story." Echoed Sheraton's Henderson: "An Arabian Nights tale. I have thought of 20 different explanations for all this, but they are all too fantastic for belief." The only unfazed veteran of the episode...
Publication of Yalta Papers: They should come in a loose-leaf binder so you can add new betrayals as they come along...
Astrolite cannot resist continuous high temperature (the plastic binder melts at about 450° F.), but it is remarkably successful against short attacks of extreme heat. It is used in 20 types of missiles, sometimes in the nose cones, sometimes in other hot spots such as the nozzles of rocket motors. The Thompson company says that a laminated layer of Astro-lite two-tenths of an inch thick can protect the nose of an IRBM. For an ICBM, which enters the atmosphere much faster, four inches may be needed. This thickness weighs, says Thompson, only one-fifteenth as much...
Skid proof Streets. Roads and driveways can be skidproofed with a liquid resin binder developed by Shell Chemical Corp. and Reliance Products Co. Relcote is applied like any enamel paint, also protects roadbed from freezing, thawing and salts. Cost: $2.50 to $8.00 per sq. yd., depending on road surfaces...