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Welfare State. In Glasgow, during the trial of Charles Frazer, 26, for indecent behavior, Prosecuting Attorney J. W. Gibbs explained the reason why so many housewives undressed for scarlet fever examinations when Frazer told them he was a health inspector: the British are "so schooled to officialdom they are hesitant to challenge credentials...
...million annual exchange of goods, and Turkey has become the No. 1 customer for Israel's manufactures. Turkey sends wheat, cotton, cattle and oil seed to Israel and last year got in return $5,000,000 worth of cars and jeeps (from Israel's Kaiser-Frazer plant), $400,000 worth of antibiotics and drugs, $400,000 worth of pots and pans. Peasants in remote Anatolia now boil their weekly wash in Israeli-made pots fired by Israeli-made stoves, turned out near Israel's Ataturk Forest and carried to Istanbul in vessels of the Turkish Maritime Bank...
...Havana with ten-gallon hats and billion-barrel talk. Last week a band of ten Latin American and U.S. businessmen flew into Havana to promote the development of the country's oil resources. Among the officers of the newly chartered Cuban-Colombian Petroleum Co.: Board Chairman Joseph W. Frazer. once of Kaiser-Frazer Corp., who now heads a uranium company; Director John A. Roosevelt, youngest of F.D.R'.s four sons, whose business ventures have ranged from department stores to home permanent waves; President Octavio Reyes Espin-dola, onetime Mexican Ambassador to Cuba and a close associate of Cuban...
...boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co. and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, was helped up, then knocked down, by the U.S. Government. Otis was cleared by the Securities & Exchange Commission of six-year-old charges that it welshed on a $10 million deal to help float stock for Kaiser-Frazer Corp. But Internal Revenue agents handed Eaton a $1,570,000 bill for back income taxes (1943) on a $1,909,000 profit he made by transferring stock between two Canadian iron-ore companies...
...expects to gross $50,000 this year as a broker in penny stocks. Stockseller Coombs also started his own brokerage firm. Others got into the act, formed their own companies and began peddling stock. The boom will come of age when & if Prospector Steen and ex-Automan Joseph Frazer, who have formed Standard Uranium, get their stocks listed on the American Stock Exchange, as scheduled...