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...arms. It is, in every sense of the word, a people's army. Its active, striking force is called the Palmach, and numbers some few thousand members, who have voluntarily enlisted. The British have been aware of Haganah and Palmach since the earliest days of their existence, have helped build their organization, trained their members, furnished them with materials and even utilized their power, for their own purposes. In 1936, Brigadier General Orde Wingate, of Burma fame, came to Palestine on Intelligence duty for the British Army. He organized raiders in Palestine. He trained Haganah men to defend British installations...
Maritime Commission got rid of its biggest white elephant-the Normandie. The once-proud liner had cost the French $60 million to build, had cost the U.S. Government another $11 million to salvage and maintain. Last week the Commission sold her for scrap. Price...
Graduating into the Depression, he found he was being paid so little by an architectural firm that he quit to start his own business. He tramped the streets, looking for buildings to remodel. One of them was a Balaban & Katz theater which was planning to spend $5,000 on draperies and upholstery. For the same price Bill remodeled virtually the whole theater. B. & K. was so pleased that it asked him to build a few theaters. Within 18 months, he had a $20,000-a-year business...
...Jacunski a thing from there," said the Sage, "but Leibert to me, and I'll have my Carpenter build you a seat...
Last week Bishop Sherrill proposed a scheme to keep homeless Presiding Bishops out of Central Park. Said he: the Church should buy an estate within 30 miles of New York, house the P.B. and his staff there, eventually build it into "an Episcopalian...