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Harry Truman had been President only a few days when he was rubbed the wrong way by a time-honored White House custom: he got stuck between floors in its creaky elevator. Ever since Theodore Roosevelt had it installed in 1902 (his rollicking sons used it to haul their patient pony Algonquin to & from their quarters). U.S. Presidents had frequently been stalled in the ornate mirrored and oak-paneled cage. The only power a President had in that emergency was to ring a gong, then wait while workmen hurried to the basement and jiggled the rachitic machinery back into motion...
...Step. For Burt Wheeler it was a strange climax to a strangely twisted career. He had sailed triumphantly into Washington as the fighting apostle of Western liberals, won quick fame by dethroning Harding's President-maker, Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. Over the long haul he had earned a solid reputation as eleven-year head of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee and its liberal, conscientious expert on railway legislation. At one time he was sure he would be picked as Franklin Roosevelt's running mate. But then he wandered off into the dead end of isolationism. Somewhere...
...ability to out-trick the slow-witted opposition. He had ample reason to hang on. Even if the Government was broke, Somoza enterprises were booming. Public-works employes kept up the dictator's cattle ranches. The National Railway had just built him an ice plant. His latest haul: an $85,000 profit on surplus goods from the U.S. Navy's [former] Corinto base...
Convair has also started to build a military transport model of the plane, the C-99, expects it to carry 400 com. pletely equipped infantrymen. On the drawing boards is an even larger commercial version which is expected to haul up to 275 passengers. But Convair has no orders for the commercial transport (Model 37) as yet. Pan American Airways has plugged Convair's Model 37 in ads for more than two years. But even Pan Am has placed no solid order...
Diadems & Dunce Caps. Oscar Hammerstein II was almost mythically affluent, with a producer's or librettist's haul from five smash hits: Oklahoma!, Carousel...