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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then as a financier of railroads, then as a banker, finally as an oilman. It was a heady day, when Denver was awash with new millionaires and old champagne bottles, and Henry Blackmer was the biggest spender and entertainer of all. He earned a reputation for blowing half a million dollars a year for 13 years...
This helped get him an ornate nickname: "The Darling of the Gods." But it didn't strain his expanding fortune. In 1921 he and three oilmen, including flamboyant Harry F. Sinclair, founded the Continental Trading Co., a Canadian corporation. Through Continental, the quartet bought more than twelve million barrels of Texas oil for $1.50 a barrel and then sold it to other corporations in their control for $1.75. This gave them a tidy $3,000,000 profit which they invested in Liberty bonds and whacked up among themselves without informing either their stockholders or the Treasury Department...
After this ruling, Italy's semiofficial, two-million-member Catholic Action organization thought it was safe to ask for exclusive permission "to sell souvenirs in St. Peter's Square." With lifted hand, Cardinal Nicola Canali, who governs Vatican City, thundered: "No! St. Peter's is a house of prayer...
...support program? As farmers wound up the harvest of the second biggest crop in U.S. history, CCC's present bankroll seemed none too fat. The corn crop alone might hit 3.5 billion bushels and granaries were still clogged by last year's 805 million bushel surplus...
...poured out $3.1 billion for loans and purchases to keep up prices on 31 commodities, just about five times the outlay in 1948. At the fiscal year's end in June, the agency had $2.3 billion tied up in loans and inventories, showing a paper loss of $356 million for the year at current market prices. Most of the support money went for only seven commodities: cotton, $822 million; corn, $470 million; wheat, $640 million; flaxseed, linseed oil, $231 million; potatoes, $219 million; peanuts, $173 million; tobacco, $107 million. And the new fiscal year has opened with a bang...