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...election day last week was orderly, the polling apparently honest. The result was a smashing victory for President Ramón Grau San Martín's left-wing regime, his Auténtico Party and Communist supporters. Grau's man, Manuel Fernandez Supervielle, won Havana's mayorship, the island's No. 2 political job. Most of the island's 125 new mayors would also be Grau men. Apparently enough Grau legislative candidates won to give the President, for the first time, a majority in Congress...
...Orleans businessmen, with eyes cocked toward Latin America, have already plunked down $200,000 to buy two adjoining buildings in the business district, pledged themselves to plunk down $750,000 more to remodel them into a slick, air-conditioned home for a new International Trade Mart. Object: a year-round display of Mississippi Valley products...
Chep Morrison has talking points: the plans for a $200,000,000 deepwater seaway, a free-trade zone like New York's, and an International Trade Mart to match the culturally and socially successful International House. Airwise, the city has bid for leadership by building Moisant International Airport, the only major U.S. municipal field to be completed during the war. New Orleans still sends only two flights south each day to rival Miami's 34, but when four-engined stratospheric giants take over the Latin American shuttle, Moisant's 7,000-ft. runway will be an insignificant...
...months last year, his eldest son, Joseph Jr., and his son-in-law, the Marquess of Hartington, had both been killed in action. He had tried to take his mind off his troubles; he had bought property in Manhattan and Albany, finally paid $17,000,000 for the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. The antidote did not work. Said Kennedy: "I thought I'd get a kick out of such trading, but I didn...
Field's seemed happy too. Said short, tough, beefy Field President Hughston M. McBain: the Mart put the company into real-estate operation to a degree that was not contemplated when the Mart was built. Now that Field's has dropped its wholesale business, the Mart is just a side show. So we're selling...