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Litigation dragged through the years, and the family struggled on. The old baron suffered a paralyzing stroke ten years ago; the baroness continued trying to manage the estate. Then a local merchant who had long sold grain and seed and rented farm machinery to the De Portals presented a bill for $14,000. The family charged that it was a fraud. Before the matter could be resolved, a judge ordered the estate sold at auction. Though it was worth an estimated $330,000, a farmer named Louis Rivière made the high bid of $88,000, and the outstanding...
...speed the prosecution of consumer fraud, Thompson has formed a special "Public Protection" unit. "The goal," he says, "is to establish a federal presence in the consumer-fraud field so that the schlock merchant knows that he's got another pair of eyes looking over his shoulder." He says that the unit will keep a close watch on the ghettos, "where people get ripped off the most...
...center of the controversy is the company president, Willie Farah. The son of a Lebanese dry-goods merchant, he had turned his father's business into a huge success. In 1971, the company ran up a profit of $6,000,000 on sales of $164 million. An imaginative businessman, the 53-year-old Farah nevertheless holds decidedly 19th century views about organized labor. He was so offended by the strike that he seemed ready to risk the business in opposing it. Accustomed to making the rounds of his well-lighted, air-conditioned plant on a bicycle, he could...
Credit for transforming Poland into a shipbuilding power goes largely to Soviet leaders, who began welding the Eastern European countries into a bloc shortly after World War II. The Soviets decided that Poland, with its skilled labor force and largely ice-free ports, should build the bloc's merchant ships; since the late 1940s, the U.S.S.R. has invested millions of rubles in developing Polish yards. The regime of Communist Party Secretary Edward Gierek has decided to intensify that development. Gierek knows all too well that the bloody wage-price riots of 1970 that toppled his predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, began...
...work both inside and outside the hull, producing a stronger seam than is attained by conventional methods. In the past, other Communist nations got most of the benefit of Polish expertise: one out of every two Rumanian fishing ships, and every fourth Albanian, fifth Soviet and sixth Chinese merchant ship, is Polish made...