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...Safe Deposit. In Mountain Home, Idaho, slot machines at the local air base bore this sign: "In case of air raid stand near these machines. They haven't been...
Although the Philippine Government has $220,000,000 on deposit in the U.S., the Islands have suffered staggering financial losses. Last week not one of the banks in the no important Islands of the Philippines was solvent. Filipinos hoped that the U.S. would grant them a 20-year preferential trade arrangement to help along the labor of reconstruction, hoped U.S. private capital and U.S. Government money would be available...
William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, longtime mayor and boss of Chicago, who died last March leaving some $2,000,000 in safe deposit boxes but no will (TIME, April 10), made news again when $250,000 of the money changed hands in an out-of-court settlement. The quarter-million went to his former secretary-nurse, Ethabelle Green, who had sued for half the estate, claiming that Big Bill promised it to her in return for the "care and affection" she bestowed upon him "as a daughter" for twelve years before his death...
Fourteen libraries, including Harvard's Widener, are taking part in a cooperative enterprise, the New England Deposit Library, the first of its kind, which is helping to ease the critical shortage of storage space...
Most of the visitors to the Deposit Library are students sent by Widener for special research. The greatest advantage of the library is its extensive amount of material. Librarians remember the case of one Harvard student who wished to compare the first nine editions of the Encyclopedia Brittanica...