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...Manhattan Bank provided the necessary credit line. A Puerto Rican refinery in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings agreed to refine the oil and transport it in return for a share of the refined products. The state of Massachusetts, using federal fuel-for-the-poor funds, bought the oil and distrib uted it to 7,500 needy households...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bargain Fuel | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

Things trouble him. In protest against his boss's fondness for locking doors and tearing down office partitions, he distrib uted among his friends a secret supply of pass keys to The New Yorker offices. Once he held a noise-making contest with carpenters and plasterers by rolling metal trash baskets up & down corridors. Stenographers still remember the day when James Thurber powdered his face white, upset the telephone booth, climbed into it, pretended he was a corpse in a coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Morose Scrawler | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

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