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...years with automobile tolls of $1.25. A series of five two-lane bridges connected by a viaduct and about five miles of highway, it traverses four islands, brings 200 others into view, will be cheaper by more than half, quicker by many times than the ride on the nearby Clayton (N. Y.)-Gananoque ferry...
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DEATH FROM A TOP HAT - Clayton Rawson-Putnam ($2). Two murders in locked rooms in one day; both victims and all suspects expert magicians; the solution by an expert, retired conjurer. Ingenious plot, amiable spoofing of detective-story formulas, alight story weakened by overlong discussions of parlor tricks...
...laws. Last week, as the Monopoly Investigation sharpened its pencils and Big Business received a thumping endorsement from the Brookings Institution (see col. 3), the Federal Trade Commission polished off a two-year investigation of the farm-equipment industry by proposing a major change in the 24-year-old Clayton Anti-Trust Act. This product of the first trust-busting era made it illegal for one company to purchase the capital stock of another when the result might substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly. FTC claims that the farm-equipment industry is an example of this...
...onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury, now Continental's trustee under 77B. Charging a conspiracy to capture several investment trusts partly and indirectly bought with their own assets, Trustee Ballantine asked an accounting and return of $3,300,000 to Continental. Defendants included Vincent E. Ferretti, George H. Clayton, Phillip A. Frear, S. Leo Solomont, James A. Frear, George J. Mitchell Jr., George H. Clayton Jr., Thomas W. Morris, Ralph H. Robb, Fred A. Ross, Chester A. Dunham, Paine, Webber & Co., brokers; J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp.; four principal ex-stockholders of Reynolds Investing...