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Herbert and his handful of Oppositionists could have kept the House voting all night. But at i a.m. they gave up the hopeless fight and did not return to the floor. Laborites, who had been yawning and sprawling on their benches, came to life. Mrs. Bessie Braddock, a Liverpool Laborite, did a victory dance across the green carpet, triumphantly plumped her plumpness on the Tory bench where Winston Churchill usually sits...
...Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. last week laid its money on the line and walked off with the biggest single cash sale the War Assets Administration had ever made. For $65,013,000, the U.S. Steel subsidiary bought the Government-owned steel facilities it had operated at Homestead, Duquesne, and Braddock, Pa. Everybody was happy. WAA clucked agreeably over the price, which it called 100% of the "fair value" and 73% (including rentals already paid) of the plants' original high wartime cost...
Captain Joseph ("Joe") Gould, 48, cigar-mangling peacetime prizefight manager, whose most famed charge was ex-Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock, went down for the count before an Army general court-martial. He was found guilty, as an Army contract officer, of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of $200,000 on Army contracts, sentenced to three years at hard labor, a $12,000 fine and dismissal from the service. Said one of his associates along "Jacob's Beach," hoary Manhattan rendezvous for the pugilistic trade: "He never should of done it during...
Because Pentagon was built on the wrong side of the Potomac River-in Arlington County, Va. instead of the District of Columbia-U.S. taxpayers must pay to Braddock Light & Power Co. $650,000 a year-$150,000 more than if the bill was collected by Braddock's big brother, Potomac Electric Power Co. (Pepco has the same officers, supplies the current Braddock sells to the Pentagon, but operates on the District side of the river...
Pepco's defense for the seeming $150,000 overcharge was that it and Braddock had laid out $1,000,000 to dredge the Potomac and lay the cables that carry current into Pentagon's acres of office space. PBA replied that the extra $150,000 a year would pay for Pepco's entire investment in four years...