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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was 13, Benjamin Balish had saved $5,300 from peddling spoiled pineapples to slum dwellers on Manhattan's lower East Side. Then he turned to onions, at one time was making about $175,000 a year as active partner in Dingfelder & Balish, Manhattan onion and potato jobbing firm. Claiming he was U. S. "Onion King," Ben Balish last year bought out his partner, quiet, wealthy Carl I. Dingfelder (TIME, Oct. 18). Last fortnight, the 42-year-old Onion King declared himself broke, asked permission to reorganize Benjamin Balish Co., Inc. under Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy...
...furnished additional proof for the heartening facts that 1) babies are tough, 2) superficial signs of death do not always mean what they say. If all fathers were as quick-witted as Charles Didier and rushed their "smothered" babies to a physician, the rate of infant mortality would be lower. A baby's heart beat is so shallow, so rapid, that often only an expert with a stethoscope can detect it. And in the case of shock, the beat is intermittent, almost inaudible. Even blueness is not so much a sign of approaching death as a warning of oxygen...
Elephantine Wrestler Frank S. Leavitt (Man Mountain Dean) withdrew his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to the lower house of the Georgia Legislature. Said he: "When a wrestler gets personal in the ring, I let him have one right on the jaw. . . . If I stay in politics, I'll slug somebody sure...
...Petrolera La Estrella de Cuba, subsidiary of Royal Dutch Co., with 44,460 acres in Havana and Matanzas provinces; Union Oil of Cuba, and Sinclair Cuba Oil Co. with increasing acreage spotted throughout the island. If any of these companies strike deep production- long suspected in Cuba's lower Cretaceous (Chalk) region-it may set off a boom as loud as the sugar spree, or as wild as the first days of the East Texas field when land worth ten dollars one day was worth a thousand the next...
...British Army commanders have been trained, a young man has needed $1,500 for the 18-month course. Last week the aggressive "Tory Socialism" of rambunctious War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha made a heavy dent in the money barrier which for generations has kept sons of Britain's lower orders from becoming brigadiers. His Majesty's Government announced that Sandhurst and Woolwich scholarships would be available to every candidate able to pass the tests; furthermore, special grants of ?20 a year would be made to impoverished subalterns. This was capped with a new system of speeding the promotions...