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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England's richest men, he is serious about the ?18 million shipping fortune he inherited 15 years ago; through shrewd investment (insurance, breweries, coal, illustrated newspapers), he has run it up to some ?37 million. One of England's shyest men, he is almost pathologically serious about his privacy. One of his country homes is surrounded by barbed wire, the servants are forbidden to discuss him with neighbors, his telephone number is unlisted, and he hides behind an assumed name in public. But he is most serious of all about rats...
...bearing sand at 7,000 ft., but plugged back the well when it proved inadequate for commercial exploitation. On the next attempt they struck pay oil at 8,665 ft. Humble is drilling another well, hopes to sink another before year's end. Total investment to date: $2 million...
...twelve months lean, hard-bitten Charles M. White, president of Republic Steel Corp., has been playing two-handed poker for gigantic stakes. His opponent: War Assets Administrator Jess Larson. The stakes: the Government's $28 million Cleveland blast furnace and coke plant, one of the world's largest...
Keedoozle means "key does all." It was-coined by Saunders' fertile brain-the same brain that thought up Piggly Wiggly, twice made and lost a million-dollar fortune (and a pink marble palace in Memphis). Now a white-haired 67, Clarence Saunders is sure that he has hit the jackpot again. Keedoozle's lavor-saving, he says, will enable hin. to make 7½% on his turnover without adding more than a 3? markup to the cost of any goods. Says Saunders, who will sell Keedoozle franchises in other cities: "It can't miss...
Mississippi River traffic is booming as never before. The river's 6,600 boat-barge fleet has grown 20% since prewar, and this year will haul an estimated 150 million tons of freight (enough to fill 57,000 freight trains of 50 cars each). At an average $1.50 a ton, that means a record gross of some $225 million...