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...Pacific Intermountain, which has just ordered $4,000,000 worth of new equipment, will pay Fast Freight's owners $3,270,000 and 60,000 shares of Pacific Intermountain stock, will then have a combined fleet of 2,642 tractors and trailers serving 25,000 Western and Midwestern towns. Combined business: $40 million annually, second biggest in the U.S., behind Manhattan's $44 million Associated Transport...
...February day in 1949, however, an elderly American agricultural expert named Walter Eugene Packard drove out to Anthele from Athens. As plainly and unmistakably American as the prostyle of a Midwestern bank, he joined the villagers for coffee and sweets at the local inn and promptly got down to business. "Some of us," he told his listeners, "think you can grow things on this land of yours. Rice, for instance." Torn between skepticism and wonder, the farmers of Anthele listened respectfully as Packard went on to outline a plan whereby U.S. money and Greek labor might be combined to test...
...last twelve months, as a result, Free-Lance Actor Bogart has played a surprising variety of important roles. He has not completely divorced himself from gangster parts-he is presently considering a hoodlum role in The Desperate Hours, a Midwestern crime story which he tried to buy himself before Paramount outbid him. Nevertheless, he has not had a gat in his hand in a long time. He not only plays a wealthy Wall-Street type (complete with Homburg, furled black umbrella, Brooks Brothers suit and briefcase), but wins the hand of lissome Audrey Hepburn in Paramount's forthcoming Sabrina...
...back in the 1930's, when the two fought against the "white-shoe" faction of the New York County Republican committee. In this role, he engineered the nomination of Dewey for President in 1944 and 1948, playing a key-part in the bitter intra-party was between Eastern and Midwestern Republicans. In 1952, he sat in a little room in Chicago's Hilton hotel and directed the "Fair Play" offensive, which crushed the candidacy of Senator Taft...
Thus his political problem was twofold: to strike out forcefully against domestic Communism, but not to play into the hands of the Republican party's midwestern wing, which, to that time, had profited most from the Communist issue. The Harry Dexter White case represented the first part of this strategy. That Brownell made unprecedented public use of secret FBI files was overshadowed in the public mind by the fact that he had uncovered a spy high up in Truman's Treasury Department. Brownell followed this exposure with requests for "new and powerful constitutional weapons" to fight subversion. They included death...