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Button, Button. In Spokane, Frank Bunker received from WAA 60,000 yards of thread, 50,000 shirt buttons, a barrel of laundry ink thinner, wondered what puzzled laundry was opening up the pipe, rivets and steel he thought he had ordered...
...only a damn fool faces into the wind"), Mitscher directed the mightiest naval unit in history in a soft, flat monotone that belied the compressed fury with which he fought. He was never known to get excited, even when Kamikaze flyers almost literally blew him off the flagships Bunker Hill and Enterprise...
Nevada's George W. Malone, blustering, stocky Irishman, upset Democrat Berkeley Bunker with a two-fisted assault on OPA. "Molly" Malone, 56, an engineer and Legionnaire, has had previous experience in Washington as a lobbyist for the Industrial West Foundation...
Nevada. Republican George W. Malone does much of his campaign touring by airplane, drops in on wool ranchers. The ranchers like him and they hate the OPA. But Representative Berkeley Lloyd Bunker rides Senator Pat McCarran's Democratic machine and is strong in the cities. Dopesters' odds: 8-to-5 on Berkeley Bunker...
Last spring, however, his obligation to relieve Los Angeles' citizens of more money became too obvious to be ignored-there wasn't a professional crap game west of Reno. Tony raised money from some "investors," bought a 386-ft. Navy mine layer, the Bunker Hill. He had her towed to Long Beach, painted the name Lux (short for Luxury) on her side, began converting her into a gambling ship...