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...Jack Benny keeps three soundmen hopping every time he enters the mythical safe-deposit vault beneath his house. The soundmen squeak doors, blow sirens, ring bells and toot horns to further the legend of Benny's penny-pinching. Studio audiences find it sidesplitting...
...months Washington had known that white-haired Leo Thomas Crowley, boss of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Foreign Economic Administration, would step out of the Government as soon as he considered his war duties done. Last week he stepped out, calm, neat and precise as ever-but hopping...
Before leaving his temporary quarters, every man must deposit his key with the janitor in Stoughton, and must return any sheets, blankets, or towels that may have been issued to him. Room contracts must be signed at the Bursar's Office (Lehman Hall) before keys to new rooms may be obtained from the super-intendents of the dormitories to which the students are being assigned...
...alleged income-tax evasions of $5 million in the boom period of 1942-44. The Treasury suspected that Restaurateur Lustig had failed to report large, systematic with drawals of cash, $1,000 at a time, from his various tills. This cash, said the News, had been placed in safe-deposit boxes ($1,500,000 in one; $50,000 in another), "and conveniently forgotten in tax reports...
...applying the wonder insecticide, DDT. The Todd Shipyards had rigged up an insect-killing version of its Army & Navy smoke-screen generator. The contraption sprays a dry, odorless, stainless cloud of fine oil particles containing a 5% solution of DDT. The fog disappears in a few minutes, leaving a deposit of DDT crystals on everything it touches...