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...East Indies. He has surrounded himself with bright young Resistance men & women. One of his secretaries is a Communist. Except for his personal aide, all of his group are commoners. His popularity had kept pace with his political growth. Dutch citizens now line the streets and cheer when his custom-built Alfa-Romeo whizzes by. In an Amsterdam theater recently the audience kept him on his feet, pumping hands and talking, until...
...which took in $3,800,000 in two years and eight months. He is a confessed onetime friend of the once influential Willie Bioff, the racketeer now in jail who tried to dominate the industry. He has married and divorced four young, handsome wives. He owns a $6,500 custom-built pale blue Cadillac, allegedly bulletproof, which formerly belonged to Tony Canero, the gamblingship proprietor. As the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals once expressed it, Wilkerson's "life has been a successful though precarious...
Last Word. In the welter of rumor, one explanation floated to the top. The explanation: Hudson and the Navy had bickered over Navy's intent to shift the arsenal away from mass production and to turn it into a gigantic repair shop and manufacturer of "custom-built" Navy products. According to this version the Navy had highhandedly settled the argument by its Commando raid...
...bought an outfit called Virginia Rubatex Corp., which makes hard & soft cellular rubber for insulation, gaskets, seat cushions, pontoons, etc. The rubber business flourished but young Odium wanted more diversification, found it in venerable Ward La France Truck Corp., one of the biggest U.S. makers of fire engines and custom-built, heavy-duty trucks. With these two in the corral, he went after Connecticut Telephone & Electric Corp. (interphone systems, signal alarms, aviation equipment), last month arranged a share-for-share swap with his Great American...
Ships had always been custom-built. To mass-produce ships meant teaching a whole industry new tricks. Every ship had to be an exact replica of her sister. A State of Washington propeller had to fit on a shaft made in Wisconsin for a hull launched in Oregon...