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...store their merchandise without putting up bonds or going through other costly red tape. Only such goods as are brought into the U.S. are dutiable. The zone will be surrounded by stout wire, and patrolled, to prevent smuggling. Los Angeles fears the zone will lure so many ships to Frisco that it is hustling to get a zone...
...done everything else it could to prepare for the arrival of a home-town girl-Frances Hutt Dewey. The rickety old St. James Hotel was freshly scrubbed. Waitresses and porters sweated in new uniforms; the best suite had been completely done over by a local furniture store. At the Frisco station a crowd gathered to cheer Frances and her husband. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...railroader, Coulter started as a track hand during the summer while attending Colby College in Waterville, Me. After graduation he took a job as clerk with the St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) Railway Co. By 1942 he was chief traffic officer and vice president of a trucking subsidiary. St. Louis knew him as one of the nattiest dressers who ever slipped into a blue double-breasted suit...
...little "speak" which he established over a garage on Manhattan's West 56th Street. Billy's shows, which were bingo-bango-bungo stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired a chorus girl with a voice as hot and blue as a gas flame-Helen Morgan...
...Rock Island, New Haven, Frisco, St. Louis Southwestern and Missouri Pacific...