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...hearing Dec. 1. Even the strikers were worried at the prospect that their jobs might be wiped out for good. Said one union leader: "We'd rather go back to work for National. Potentially it's the best airline in the country-if Baker would just divest himself of the operations...
...This is the last of my columns," he wrote. "A column is heady stuff for the ego. The heckling of bigots is the best sport this earth affords. . . . And it is an advantage to a man of intellectual choler to have ... a weekly oblong where he can divest himself of the indignation occasioned by the antics of his brother-imbeciles. But all this, I yield, and gladly. For my column has been a failure...
Green Light. ICC allowed Railroader Robert R. Young to divest his Chesapeake & Ohio Railway of control of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate) road. He will distribute C. & O.'s 192,400 Nickel Plate shares to C. & O. stockholders as a stock dividend. In permitting Young to shed control of a road that competes with the New York Central, ICC removed one more obstacle to Young's aim to control the Central...
G.O.P. Congressmen had vowed that one of their first acts would be to divest Harry Truman of many of his wartime powers. But on the last day of the old year Harry Truman did it himself. He declared "the cessation of hostilities...
...With it he acquired a lawsuit by ex-Owner Donald Flamm, who charged that Noble had coerced him into selling cheaply, for fear FCC would take away his wavelength. Flamm won another $350,000 in court. But Noble still liked radio. So after FCC ordered NBC to divest itself of either the Red or Blue network, Ed Noble paid $8,000,000 for the Blue, the biggest deal in radio history...