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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. J. (for Joseph) Melville Broughton, 60, North Carolina's Democratic freshman Senator and onetime governor (1941-45); of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
...admit to the accusation of strikebreaker, said the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, Francis J. Spellman, "and I am proud of it. If stopping a strike like this isn't a thing of honor, then I don't know what honor is." For three days last week, Cardinal Spellman walked about the 550-acre expanse of crowded Calvary Cemetery in New York City's Queens supervising his corps of 100 amateur gravediggers. All of them were young students for the priesthood, recruits from St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. Cardinal Spellman's troubles...
When Burlington Mills Corp. (Bur-Mil), largest U.S. weaver of rayon goods, slashed its prices 10% to 25% a fortnight ago, its 52-year-old Chairman J. (for James) Spencer Love made a calculated gamble. He was betting that the price of rayon fiber, which Burlington has to buy to weave its fabrics, would soon come down enough to make up the difference...
...Mexico in 1938, most major U.S. oil companies have shown little desire to go back in, despite repeated invitations. Last year, Cities Service Co., the only one that had not left Mexico, took on a job of drilling new wells. But otherwise, the best deal that Antonio J. Bermudez, boss of Pemex, Mexico's oil monopoly, could make was with J. Edward Jones, a small U.S. oil promoter, to drill 100 wells (TIME, Sept. 22, 1947). He drilled...
Pacific Western Oil Corp.'s J. Paul Getty closed his big deal with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, for the oil concession in the King's half of the "neutral zone" between Arabia and Kuwait on the Persian Gulf (TIME, Feb. 21). Getty expects to start drilling in a few months, and will develop the zone with the American Independent...