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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, G.M.'s National was the 13th largest bank in the U.S., with total deposits of over a billion dollars. But G.M., still anxious to get back to its mechanical last, nevertheless unloaded the biggest controlling block of bank common stock ever to be offered publicly in a single transaction. It found eager buyers, since even at $42 National stock was a good deal. Nobody minded G.M.'s profit of over 100%. The emergency was over...
...sand was deep and the beach rose rather sharply; it would have been difficult to assault under heavy fire. Built into the hillsides were dozens of coral block burial vaults. They are relics of the ancient Chinese culture of the Okinawans rather than of their 70 years of Japanese domination. Neatly kept, the vaults are about 10 by 10 ft. and about 6 ft. high. The vaults have steps inside on which iron or earthen urns were placed. Some of the urns are three feet high, others only half as large. The urns contain the skulls and bones of departed...
...year like 1945 is Cincinnati's Bill McKechnie-bossed Reds, who always turn up with good pitching. They still have 34-year-old Pitcher Bucky Walters and the league's top first baseman, Frank McCormick. The four Eastern clubs, which formed a solid second-division block in 1944, are filled with long ifs and forlorn buts. If Manager Mel Ott's aging legs hold out, if they get one pitcher to help 21-game winner Bill Voiselle, the New York Giants might climb upstairs. The Philadelphia Phils must struggle along without their one power-hitter, Ron Northey...
...result, he said, packers are now squeezed so tightly between high ceilings for meat on the hoof and comparatively low ceilings for meat on the butcher's block that they are losing money on every pound of pork and beef. Thus, with the greatest cattle herds roaming the ranges in U.S. history, there is no incentive for packers to slaughter them. Sadly, Thomas E. Wilson, board chairman of Wilson & Co., one of the Big Four in meatpacking, agreed. Unless something is done at once, he predicted, the Federal Government will have to take over the packing industry...
...Glass and other drawings (collection of the late Bronson Winthrop, onetime law partner of War Secretary Henry L. Stim-son). The Gryphon, as well as the King and Queen of Hearts, the White Rabbit, the Mock Turtle, the Frog-Footman, and Alice herself brought good prices on the auction block. A drawing of Alice at the moment her neck started to lengthen ("Curiouser and curiouser!") went for $475, top figure for the series; Alice and the Gryphon (see cut), $220; the whole block of Tenniel originals...