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California's fabulous, far-flung banking Gianninis last week went farther into the U.S. war production than any other bankers. The Gianninis, never orthodox bankers, were all set to buy up-&-coming Ade Precision Products Corp. (Burbank, Calif.), specialist in aviation hydraulic and de-icing equipment. Actual purchase will be made by Giannini's $140,000,000 Transamerica Corp., which will swap about $1,700,000 worth of its Bank of America stock for 95% of outstanding Adel shares...
Oldsters in Chicago newsrooms chortled with glee. Times had returned that they had thought were gone forever. Complete with pictures, "Xs" marking spots, big-time crime had busted loose on Page 1 again. All the worn but reliable cliches were dusted off: "Big black sedan . . . sawed-off shotguns . . . far-flung man hunt . . . cold-blooded killers." Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy, Bad Basil ("The Owl") Banghart and five other long-term incorrigibles had lammed from Illinois' supposedly escape-proof Stateville Prison...
Some railroads are doing even better. Far-flung Northern Pacific last week reported eight months' profits at $5,787,000 against $3,227,000 last year; up-&-coming Alton Railroad cleared $1,752,000 v. $80,000; giant Union Pacific (whose up-from-the-tracks boss is now U.S. rubber tsar) bounced profits 133% to $25,106,000; once-busted Erie netted a record-smashing $9,124,000 against $5,292,000 last year...
...will make no accusations," asserted Robert J. L. Waugh '43, acting technical head for the Network, "but the coincidence of the announcement of the new station and the breakdown of Network facilities cannot escape our notice." Meanwhile all the far-flung organization of the Network was thrown, into the battle against time to put the evening's programs back...
...five were blown to the bottom by submarines which also probably sank a cargo ship and damaged two tankers in continuing thrusts against Japan's far-flung supply lines...