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...Immunity. Turning to the haven of the small investor, the SEC group charged that the odd-lot market is controlled by a "duopoly" of two Wall Street wholesalers, Carlisle & Jacquelin and DeCoppett & Doremus. In 1951, said the SEC, the two got together and fixed the extra charges that small investors have to pay above and beyond the regular commission for buying odd lots-1210 per share on stock priced up to $40 and 250 per share on costlier stock...
...buyers in the Doremus development at Thousand Oaks since the shelter offer was announced, a surprising 20 have ordered shelters. Doremus is planning a new subdivision, will offer bomb shelters with those houses...
Service with the Ventura County Civil Defense Organization convinced Californian Richard Doremus that residential nuclear fallout shelters are essential to the nation's total defense. Experience as a home builder convinced Doremus that he was the man to get things going in the "Exhibit Homes" development he was building in the Los Angeles suburbia of San Fernando Valley. For prospective buyers of his $29,500 to $31,500 houses, Doremus offered a bomb shelter under the garage for $1,100 extra. The small...
...shelter would have a concrete and steel roof 2 ft. thick, 6-in. concrete walls, and would be equipped with a handoperated air pump. After being properly stocked with food, said Doremus, it could house a family of six for six weeks. Doremus pointed out that in peacetime, the shelter could be put to use as a storeroom or photographic darkroom...
...with the discussion of McCarthysim and the age of suspicion. Wechsler's closing pages bear a depressing resemblance to the opening ones of a 1936 novel on dictatorship in America by Singular Lewis. Entitled It Can't Happen Here, Lewis' work tells how it could happen here. His hero, Doremus Jesseup, is a newspaperman not unlike Wechsler, and his dictator is a politician named Berzelius Windrip. In Wechsler's age of suspicion, an embryonic Windrip is incubating; only a cessation of panic and a new faith in freedom, the editor of the Post warns us, will prevent...