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Paper Plan. Behlen's big break came in 1947, when he designed a frameless corn crib made of corrugated wire mesh. Farmers jumped at it because it was so simple to assemble. Behlen borrowed from the RFC to pay for a bigger plant, netted $305,000 that year and paid off the loan in six months. Then the corrugating idea really blossomed. One day he devised a new way of double corrugation by folding a piece of stationery in an unusual pyramidal form. It was so much stronger that he decided to use the principle for building. Panels...
...days later Wynne & Reeves was just another business failure. Two students tipped off Dean of Administration William C. Jones, got $30 in expense money from him, bought a bootleg exam. The dean called the district attorney, and investigators raided the apartment, seizing Wynne and the crib sheets. They caught Reeves as he headed confidently for his last exam, armed with some of his own merchandise. The college bounced the student peddlers and fired the watchman, but by the time the bootlegging was discovered, it was too late to substitute exams. Satisfied Wynne & Reeves customers-prospective teachers all-got off scot...
Mothers of River City! Watch for the telltale signs of corruption. The moment your son leaves the house does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime novel hidden in the corn crib? Is he memorizing jokes out of Capt. Billy's "Whiz Bang"? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like "swell" and "so's your old man"? If so, my friends-ya got Trouble...
Look Sharp. "There's no second-generation money here." says 38-year-old Anchorage Millionaire (real estate) Wally Hickel. who went to Alaska from Claflin, Kans. in 1940 with 37? in his pocket. "This is the crib. We're it. We're trying to make a Fifth Avenue out of the tundra, to accomplish in less than 50 years what the U.S. did in 100. Where else could you get that kind of mission, in a land that cozies you with beauty on one hand and swats you hard-if you're not looking sharp-with...
...turned up as the star performer of Easter Sunday's feature program. Sniggered the Express: "Twiddle the dial any evening, and the chances are that the crack of a shot in Dragnet will set the objets d'art tinkling on your chimney piece. Or that pathetic crib of an American quiz show, The $64,000 Question, will dribble a sad, self-evident little droplet of knowledge into our sitting room." Further, the Express charged that 50% of the time that ITA allocates to children is now taken up with Americana. "Do they imagine that commercial TV was brought...