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...estate. By buying low and selling high, he made a fortune after the war in depreciated bonds of the Baltimore Transit Co., saw the huge-and often overlooked-profit potentials in city transit. He bought heavily into the Scranton Transit Co., then got control as its receiver after an eight-month strike drove it to the brink of bankruptcy. Typically...
Under Pittman, who has been on the job for less than two months, civil defense leaders last week were readying a program of surveying, marking and stocking every existing public building in the nation that could serve as a shelter. Merely marking and identifying these sites, said Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, "could, without additional effort, save at least 10 to 15 million lives." Next month the first teams of trained experts will begin the eight-month survey...
...Parish. Among Niles children there have been eight cases of acute leukemia in three years, from a population of 20,000-about four times the overall U.S. rate. Three occurred during an eight-month period beginning in September 1957; five more developed in the eight months beginning in December 1959. Six of the victims have already died...
WORLD COFFEE SURPLUS is building up. Backlog at present is 40 million bags, about an eight-month supply at current consumption rate, and production continues to outstrip demand...
...eight days of it in a Roman jail. His troubles revolve around a pretty girl, Italian Starlet Gabriella ("Gaby") Palazzoli, 23. A street brawl erupted when three Roman punks taunted two of Gaby's brothers about young Barrymore's beard-a male appurtenance made to order for some special Italian insults. After the brawlers were hauled off to Rome's Queen of Heaven clink, Barrymore, Gaby and Gaby's papa went there to spring the Palazzoli boys, so ardently set about liberating the captives that they soon were jugged themselves. Let off with an eight-month...