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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chapter 6. At week's end Mr. Bennett got a court order tying up a $100,000 brokerage account of Dr. Coster's wife, Carol, on the ground that "she is in all probability in possession of funds which . . . may be ... derived from . . . fraudulent practices." That seemed to point to a possible answer to one question in the mystery: what happened to the money? Other questions remained unanswered. What the crude drug department's real business was, nobody knew. Whether there were any real warehouses where drugs or liquor might be cached, nobody knew. How long...
Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Short described the historic deflation which followed, the case of a human being who parted with 60% of her body and lived to tell the tale. During the first month she lost twelve pounds, in 20 months she got rid of 239 pounds. Only discomfort she suffered was the surgical removal of an apron of skin, two feet long and one foot wide, which hung loosely over her deflated abdomen. When she weighed in at 156 pounds, said Dr. Short, "she was in excellent health and spirits...
...editions. "Wait here for me," said Straus. A few minutes later he reappeared, handed Macy a fistful of checks. They were for $1,000 each. To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls: "I've got a good thing...
...factories. Publisher Connett liquidated the business during a strike, then sold printing for two years, printed 89 copies of a sporting book on a hand press at home. When he started The Derrydale Press in 1927, that was the sum of his publishing experience. The name Derrydale he got "from a bottle of whiskey and a map of Ireland...
Frightened by a Harvard freshman who was admittedly threatening to "bite her over the telephone" (?), Miss Peggy Arnold, Radcliffe '42, got herself into such a position in a dormitory telephone booth yesterday afternoon, that she required aid from outside...