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...shovels chewed into a sticky, greyish substance at the bottom of a quarter-mile-wide, 137-ft.-deep crater in the desert floor. In the past year huge machines had scraped off 7,000,000 tons of earth to expose this mineral prize: the world's largest known deposit of borax. To the housewife, borax is merely a household cleanser, 'but to industry it is the chief source of boron, a new wonder element and Jack-of-all-trades that can be used in everything from drugs and plastics to the super-powered rocket fuels of the future...
...Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala and Argentina's ousted Dictator Juan Perón keep fortunes in Swiss banks all presumably pilfered from public funds. But sometimes the secrecy of Swiss banks defeats itself. Many an owner of a secret account has simply disappeared, leaving his money still on deposit. Estimated amount of unclaimed funds still in Swiss banks: $30 million...
...will continue for an additional week so that a wider distribution of student opinion may be included in next fall's Guide. A new shipment of poll forms will be distributed in dining halls in each House and in the Union and at Radcliffe dormitory bell desks. Students may deposit the polls through next Tuesday...
...grocers making a tidy profit by selling cheese to the Government at one support price and buying it back a few days later at a lower price. The Justice Department is suing to recover $2,500,000. Again, Brownell clashed with the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and prominent banking interests because he wanted close federal control of bank holding companies...
...intricate series of Machiavellian maneuvers, De Paris involves four cadets, who think the whole sinister business is an almost innocent practical joke, in a plot. The idea is to siphon a mort of whisky through an enema nozzle into a fifth cadet and deposit his senseless body on the quadrangle one dark night. Next morning, when the boy is found and expelled from the academy for drinking on the campus. Jocko's hands are clean because so many others' are dirty; nobody dares to talk for fear of expulsion. After that, the camera watches with morbid fascination...