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...have done what I wanted to do here," said Wales's pudgy, pink-cheeked Poet Dylan Thomas, after a three-month tour of the U.S. "I met Charles Chaplin and Carl Sandburg, and I insulted a rich industrialist." Thomas, who has been writing scripts for the BBC, was puzzled by one thing: "Why do so many American poets teach? They graduate from college, and then they stay in college. When do they learn anything...
Philadelphia's young Bob Carpenter and his industrialist father bought the futile Phillies in 1943 for less than half a million dollars. Since then the Philly organization has found the initial investment small compared to the overhead, which now includes a $2,500,000 farm system and $850,000 for bonus players...
...Rabbit. The private decision to invest and the Treasury forecast of gross private investment are not made at the same time or in the same room. "The dog never sees the rabbit," explains one industrialist whose company is building a very large new plant. "What happens is this. [The Treasury] sends a directive to what is known as the 'appropriate ministry,' where an official keeps it three weeks, rewrites it so the main point is obscured, sends it to the wrong man in our company, who rephrases it in trade jargon so that it is perfectly harmless...
...September, 1926, a wealthy industrialist named Rudolf Haas was arrested in Magdeburg, Germany, charged with murder. He was later released and his honor restored when another man, one Richard Schroeder, was found guilty of the crime. In 1947, a German film company took this incident and with the superb acting for which German motion pictures have always been noted, used it in an excellent film, "The Affair Blum," as a focus for the anti-semitism in the German character which Hitler later worked up into the frenzy of Nazism...
...handsome, 36-page booklet, Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser last week gave the public its first good look at his complex industrial empire and the way he controls it. That empire, the booklet explained, had now grown to 44 plants, producing 141 different products and chalking up annual sales of $500 million. It did not tell how much profit the empire makes...