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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...
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...
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