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The people of the U.S. had never been so prosperous (see BUSINESS). Never before had the breadwinner taken home so much money; in March and April, aftertax pay of the average factory worker with three dependents was around $70 a week. Not since the first delirious, mistaken weeks after V...
Then old Henry started taking bids for a 535-room hotel, 35 honeymoon cottages (each with private pool), 200 low-budget hotel rooms and 100 cabanas on his new beach site. If and when the government builds H.J. his island, he will rent it from the government and spend another...
¶ After two years in the job, Joseph H. McConnell. 49, resigned as president of Colgate-Palmolive Co. Though both Colgate Chairman E. H. Little and McConnell were mum on the reason, trade gossip had it that they disagreed on basic company policy. Said McConnell: "I plan to go fishing...
George moved up to the State Court of Appeals, then to the Georgia Supreme Court as an associate justice. He resigned in 1922, and went back to Vienna to handle the estate of his late father-in-law, hard-bitten old Joseph Heard, a cotton grower, undertaker, warehouseman, building contractor...
While fishing (for the first time in his life) and trying to hook savage snook in the Florida Everglades, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned too far out of an outboard skiff while trying to make his plug let go of a mangrove root, back-somersaulted overboard. Absent from the scene...