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Largest employer of labor in Gloucester. Mass, is Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co., Ltd. Its plants, stretching along Gloucester's busy waterfront, turn out such fishy products as ready-to-fry codfish cakes, ready-to-use codfish, clam chowder, haddock chowder, flaked fish, haddock fillet, cod liver oil, fish meal...
...wife. She assures poor Oswald that some men are born to be cuckolds and that he is eminently one of them. Other stories are of "A Gentleman of England," who, if he was not perfect, "it was not for lack of thinking so"; of Jeremy Gibber, who, by mixing clam-like silences with psychological moments rose to be a leader of ecclesiastical thought; and "Last Straws," a powerful story of post-War aches &; pains...
...Tottenville, N. Y. a clam digger found 22 silver dollars in a tin box in the mud. He sped them to a bank. ¶ Near Fort Wayne, Ind. a farmer hid $250 in an old bureau drawer. Rats chewed the bills to bits so small that banks refused to redeem the trash. ¶ At Los Angeles a 10-year-old boy found a tin can, used it as a target for rifle practice. Out of the can his father extracted eleven $1,000 bills, perforated with bullet holes. A broker accepted the currency in payment for securities...
...decided to use as far as possible the distributing and statistical services of the Federal Reserve system and the skeleton organization of War Finance Corp. It was also decided to adopt a clam-like policy in dealing with the Press. The board's attitude of secrecy, however, did not prevent President William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania R. R. from announcing that his road would apply for a loan of "$5.000,000 a month for an indefinite period" to carry on the electrification of its New York-Washington line. Rail-road Credit Corp. intimated that it might...
...replaced the defunct office for reparation payments in Berlin (TIME, Sept. 23, et seq.). Switzerland has worked wonders with Tycoon McGarrah. When he reluctantly resigned as board chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to go abroad and try to make the Young Plan work, no clam was closer, no Scotsman more cautious, dour. There was danger then lest reporters trap Mr. McGarrah into what could be construed as an admission that the B. I. S. might become "The World Bank," the omnivorous big brother, the dread competitor of the central banks of the world's nations...