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...Since its completion in 1942, the real hub of Army activity. Principal occupants to be moved from the new War Department Building: the Army's Engineers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combined Chiefs of Staff, the Atomic Energy Commission...
...count. Free throws and field goal tries rolled off both rims time after time, and at the end of the second quarter the Jayvees led by a narrow 18 to 15 margin. In the last two periods, however, Kopp's men found the basket, and their barrage left the Hub college quintet far behind...
Speaking at Newcastle, hub of the nowly-nationalized coal industry, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton said bluntly that Britain was living on borrowed money and must produce more goods for export of face a lower standard of life and more unemployment...
When Twentieth Century Fox decided to put out a technicolor period piece about the trials of a working girl in Boston in the Seventies, they apparently thumbed through the Joe Miller index and looked up all the standard japes about the Hub city. Into this essentially fine musical comedy idea they threw Betty Grable and Dick Haymes and proceeded to develop that peculiar mixture of maudlin sentiment and half-hearted satire that passes for musical comedy on the screen. The result, which was supposed to send Bostonians hustling to their desks to write indignant letters to the local papers...
Along Detroit's "Sharpers Row," used-car hub of the U.S., prices skidded as much as 40%. In Chicago, a 1941 Cadillac which would have sold for $2,700 a few months ago was on sale for $2,100. In Los Angeles, Kelley Kar Co., which boasts that it is the biggest used-car dealer in the world, cut prices $200 to $500 a car. In Cleveland, prices were off about 20% and dealers were referring to any 1942 model as "a white elephant." Hardest hit were 1946 models. A few weeks ago they were selling from...