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Just about dinnertime, on May 11, 1941, a garment worker named Santo Caminito was picked up by New York police for the holdup-murder of Coney Island Merchant Murray Hameroff. Although Caminito had never been arrested before, the cops were sure they had their man. They set out to get a confession-and they...
...long legs limberer than ever after two years in the Army, Northwestern's sophomore speed merchant, galloping Jim Golliday, outran a light breeze and the best sprinters in the Big Ten to tie the world's loo-yd.-dash record (0:09.3) in the Big Ten Relays at Evanston...
Norway, with its huge hydroelectric resources, is concentrating on a ship-propulsion reactor to end its big merchant fleet's dependence on imported coal and oil. Already there is a 250-kw. reactor near Oslo, operated in cooperation with Dutch scientists...
...fourth named Gireh. Joseph begat Thomas, who begat Nathaniel, who begat Gustavus, who founded one of the biggest meatpacking firms in the U.S.: Swift & Co. Gireh begat Zephaniah, who begat Perez, who begat Jesse, who begat Jehiel, who begat Orville. who begat Frank B. Swift, a prosperous wholesale merchant in New York. But while the better-known branch of the family from Sandwich went in for ham, Frank preferred cheese. His big, busy Chelsea commission house handled as many as 60 carloads of cheese...
...John Lowell, a wealthy merchant, left a will which established the Lowell Institute for the support of public lectures in Boston. The testament also called for courses "more erudite and particular" at a feed approximately equal to the value of four bushels of wheat. These course survive in the University Extension and, at current market values, still cost only a little more then four bushels of wheat...