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...Hayes Manufacturing Co. (airplane parts) of Grand Rapids, Mich. They got Hayes an order for parts from Brewster Aeronautical Corp. Their own commission was 5%. Out of jail, they joined Partner Zelcer in their Manhattan office, and arranged with Brewster to handle the sale abroad of its Buffalo fighters. They operated as the "Brewster Export Corp.," charged up to 12½% commission, and were in a position to collect on sales of parts to Brewster and sales of Brewster planes abroad. They stood to make hundreds of thousands of dollars before war's end. They also bought into Hayes...
...elevators are bursting their seams, with little prospect of new construction. Said Agriculture's James E. Wells, who presided in Minneapolis last week: "Last year, we started with a 350,000,000-bushel wheat carryover. We filled up Baltimore, and we filled up Philadelphia, and we filled up Buffalo. Then down at Kansas City, they thought all we had to do to give them relief was to move about 15,000,000 bushels from Kansas City. Topeka had the same idea...
Food was running out and men were getting leaner on a diet of carabao (water buffalo), cavalry horses and mules, but they stayed on their feet and fought until the burning fever of malaria laid them out. Thousands of prostrated fighting men jammed the field hospitals. Others, listless, weary and sometimes out of their heads hung on with their outfits where they were more liabilities than assets...
...court awarded Frederick and Evelyn Smith $3,792 for damage done to their house. Damagers: a tenant's 200 dogs. In San Diego the Charles E. Smiths heard a scratching at their trailer door, opened it, found the cat they had left two months before in Buffalo...
...some 6,000 doctors who have fled from Hitler's Europe to the U.S., 3.500 have been licensed to practice. A few are eminent research men like the University of Chicago's Rudolf Schindler, University of Pennsylvania's Fritz Lewy, Bacteriologist Ernest Witebsky of Buffalo. But most have forsaken their specialties to become hard-working general practitioners-often in doctorless farming communities...