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...family. Thirteen years ago, fleeing taxes, he transferred some $85,000,000 (Mex.) from British India to free Shanghai, where there is still no income tax. He bought real estate, built the city's biggest buildings, lives in begadgeted Oriental splendor atop his own Cathay Hotel. Lame, cynical, monocled Sir Victor's parties are the gayest in gay Cathay society; his business interests as wide as Shanghai's own. Besides cotton mills, building supplies, tugboats, bus lines, a brewery, a laundry, he owns or manages Shanghai's best hotels, apartments and office buildings, including Cathay Mansions...
Last week, SEC did its own little bit toward complication. Approved by SEC was a 173rd subsidiary for lame Associated, authorized was a $32,000,000 issue of bonds, notes and stock to form Virginia Public Service Generating Co., seven layers below Associated's teetering top. SEC's apology for adding to an "already overly complicated" system: new customers, including a torpedo factory, required additional service, and none of the Associated Gas tribe was strong enough to raise money for new generating capacity, so a new member had to be created...
...North Russia, birthplace of the Soviet State, with nearly as many inhabitants as all of Finland together, was within artillery range of a country which 20 years ago swarmed with enemy Germans threatening invasion. But most of the World could not forgive the crude cynical fabrication of incidents, lame excuses and low-comedy lies to prove how the mighty but peace-loving Union of Soviet...
...YORK--An "attack" on officials of the New York Stock Exchange by an unidentified spokesman for the Securities & Exchange Commission provided Stock Market traders with a lame excuse today to lighten their holdings...
With the return of Mort Waldstein at bucking back, Skip Stahley's Wildcats near the Yale game at full strength in the backfield. Only Bob Fisher, heavy tackle, is on the squad's injury list with a lame ankle...