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Personal Finance. In Omaha, Judge Perry Wheeler performed a marriage ceremony, collected his $1 fee (which the groom borrowed from the bride), then lent the young couple, at the groom's request, 25? for bus fare...
...Senators learned, RFC had lent $975,000 to the Mapes Hotel in Reno, which drew 30% to 40% of its income from a thriving twelfth-floor gambling casino called "The Sky Room." The casino operators, said Committee Chairman William Fulbright last week, were "lawbreakers and thugs." The casino's boss is Lou Wertheimer of the gambling Detroit Wertheimers...
...actual shooting of Quo Vadis. A German army barracks during the war, Cinedtta had been stripped of all electrical equipment, and its sound stages had been smashed and gutted. A hurry call for Metro's own big generator went out to Hollywood and the Italian government lent two more from the torpedoed battleship Vittorio Veneto...
...publicity man and an old Boston friend, and Thomas McCann, 34, a onetime U.S. vice consul in Rome, and formed the Trieste Shoe Co. Last week, after nine months of negotiations, Saitz put over his complicated deal to bail out Fleetwood. AMG in Trieste, working with ECA, lent Saitz $190,000 on the machinery (valued at only $47,000 by the bankruptcy court), and another $23,000 to cover shipping, installation costs, etc. in Trieste...
...Lindsey lent out 37 horns, sold eight more at $3 each. Then 60 hunters sallied forth one night last week. For eight hours they stumbled through scrub-oak thickets, squawking dismally. Turkey went along in his campaign suit (double-breasted gabardine) and tan oxfords, stepped gingerly around rain puddles...