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...machine about 1850, and by 1860 he was in much the same position as John Fine is today. To get Abraham Lincoln the Republican nomination, Lincoln's lieutenants had to promise Cameron a Cabinet post. He was one of the worst Secretaries of War who ever bought a carload of defective rifles, but his power in Pennsylvania was unbroken until his death (at 90) in 1889. He passed his Senate seat on to his son, but his real power fell to Matt Quay...
Knives by the Carload. Keating, the son of an Austrian immigrant who became a successful tinsmith, got through Chicago's Armour Institute with twelve athletic letters and a cum laude in mechanical engineering. He thinks the best way to render his own products obsolete, and thus create new markets, is to keep improving his designs. He pays Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy $75,000 a year to think up new styles for handles, new color combinations, etc. As a result, in cutlery alone, he is now producing an average of 300,000 knives a week (ranging from...
...Texas Railroad Commission last week turned down a request of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (The Katy) to reduce freight rates on less-than-carload shipments to compete with the trucking companies which have been snatching away business...
...corner, four tipsily serious coeds tried to revive a passed-out couple with more salty dog (a mixture of gin, grapefruit juice and salt). About 10 p.m., a brunette bounded on to the coffee table, in a limited striptease. At 2 a.m., when the party broke up, one carload of youngsters decided to take off on a two-day drive into Mexico (they got there all right, and sent back picture postcards to the folks...
...carload of carabinieri was waiting outside of the house where Giuliano was hiding. The bandit chief was in a room upstairs. "Your letter," Pisciotta told him after the two had exchanged greetings, "has brought no help to our friends. They will be sentenced to life imprisonment...