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Klaxon-voiced New York Auctioneer Jacob Goldberg had had a three-and-a-half-hour grilling by the Mead Committee (formerly the Truman Committee) and he was hopping mad. Finally he stood at bay, angrily accused the investigators of trying to tear down his character, and of tapping the telephone wire of his firm (Surplus Liquidators, Inc., which held a contract to sell some $750,000 worth of Defense Plant Corp. surpluses to the public). Without pausing for breath, he also charged that the Senate's Committee was wasting millions in its investigation of Government surplus property disposal methods...
...Committee was understandably astonished. Previous testimony had made many an unsavory anti-Goldberg point: 1) that Goldberg had sold DPC surpluses at knock-down prices, but had later, and privately, tapped purchasers for an additional 20%; 2) that he had favored certain buyers by use of signals rather than voice bids; 3) that he had offered a DPC official a $20,000-a-year job to promote Goldberg good will within...
...result of trials held last night, the Debate Council announces the election of Richard Firth '48, Robert Gabler '46, Richard Gardner '48, and Ray Goldberg...
Britain mourned last week one of its best-loved comic artists. He was William Heath Robinson, England's Rube Goldberg, whose drawings of outrageously improbable contraptions have tickled his countrymen for 30 years. Bespectacled, mustached, 72 -year-old Robinson died of heart disease at his London home...
...barrels at the beginning of assembly, as they had always done, and would not test finished guns unless they came up in sequence. Result: when one gun was pulled out because of a faulty part, the whole test line stopped. Quipped one worker: "Production was like a Rube Goldberg cartoon-everyone and his brother was a foreman. . . . Mobs of men walked through the plant all day with books and no one knew what they did. ... It was like...