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...tobacco merchant, Hermann attended Pastor Niemöller's Evangelical Church, spent most of the war years in school. After being inducted into an antiaircraft unit with his teachers and entire class, he decided that he was "willing not to fight for Hitler" and soon deserted. Hermann, who thinks the trouble with his countrymen is that they have been educated in "servile obedience," hopes to bring back some of the Schenectady spirit with...
...masted liner with a cruiser stern. She was the British Cunard White Star Line's 13,700-ton ship Media, the first new liner to be built for the transatlantic service since the war. The British, although stalled in other industries, were losing no time getting their new merchant ships afloat...
...while negotiations went on. In New York City a longshoremen's contract got signed in time, but three locals refused to abide by it and started a wildcat strike. That touched off a sympathy move aboard the big liner America, queen of the U.S. merchant fleet, and off walked its National Maritime Union crew. Results: no America sailing to Europe; badly frayed tempers for Film Actress Carole Landis and 937 other passengers; loss of about $500,000 in fares and wages...
...struggle between Communism and the West for the political allegiance of the Italian people, the U.S. last week made an important tactical move: it crossed Italy's war debt (about $1 billion) off the books. Italy's frozen accounts in the U.S. will be thawed, her merchant ships returned. Italians were grateful for the agreement, negotiated by able Ivan Matteo Lombardo, an industrialist who became Secretary-General of the Socialist Party. But with the skepticism of a long-suffering nation, many wondered what the U.S. would ask in return...
Harris, who has long since tired of telling folks that Wishbone is no nickname, is the son of a prosperous St. Paul woolen merchant. The year after his graduation in 1936, he picked up a beauty-supply business for $5,000. In 1941, when cold waves began to attract attention in beauty shops, Harris began wholesaling them. Two years later, some of his pioneering competitors began experimenting with home-wave kits. The first one, which sold for 59?, was a big seller, but it nearly ruined the market because it was unsatisfactory. Harris kept trying, finally came up with Toni...