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...papers keep hammering away. Last April, when baby-faced Reporter Don Petit of the News told his managing editor that he had some inside tips on Miami racketeering, he got the go-ahead. The Petit crusade was well-timed: a new grand jury was starting to investigate gambling and alleged police protection. For three weeks, Newsman Petit vanished from the city room into the underworld...
Shipping. The U.S. Maritime Commission gave the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. the go-ahead to build the biggest liner ever constructed in a U.S. shipyard, a 48,000-tonner to cost $70,373,000 (TIME, Aug. 2). The Government will put up $42 million in subsidies and for "defense features" such as double engine rooms to cut down the danger from torpedoes. The U.S. Lines will put up $28 million. With its 33-knot speed, the 2,000-passenger air-conditioned ship, to be launched in 1952, will have a good chance of breaking the transatlantic speed record...
...branch has been given a special go-ahead signal by the Boston Bar Association. Students working at the new office will be the only ones in the nation entitled to practice law outside school limits...
...Boss. This week, Percy got the go-ahead to finish the job-and in his own way. To succeed McNabb, who died last week, the directors chose him president. At 29, he is boss of a company that sold $18 million worth of motion-picture cameras and equipment last year, and earned a net profit of some...
...case, the council's two-way verdict constituted a first-class tactical save for Nicaragua's strong man, "Tacho" Somoza. Tough Tacho, the only Nicaraguan who could have given the go-ahead signal for the Costa Rican adventure, narrowly escaped getting his fingers burned when Costa Rica invoked the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (for hemisphere defense...