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Their first client, a backsliding policeman who once owed well over a year's salary and was about to lose his job, paid off his last nickel. For services to him - and up wards of 700 clients - Purdy & Rouse netted about $15,000 last year. Although the system is no sure cure for spendthrifts, Purdy & Rouse are pleased that 75% of those who take the cure, stay cured. Why debtors come to C.A.C. instead of trying to puzzle their way out of their tangles is simply explained by Purdy: "It's always easier to take someone else...
...Coke Is a Coke Is a Coke. In Baltimore, a Boy Scout helping out in an OPA office put a nickel in an automatic coke dispenser. Out popped the cup, down poured the drink. He picked it up. Out popped another cup, down poured a drink. He picked it up. Out popped a cup, down poured a drink. He yelled for help. A line formed. The machine automatically dispensed one hundred and forty-seven drinks...
Tony Galento, the boxer who walks like a beer barrel, was fined $60 in Orange, N.J., for pushing his right at a cop. The heavyweight saloonkeeper had refused to drop a nickel in a parking meter (and refused to stop shadow-boxing in court...
...Dive. For a company that had never lost a nickel in the nine years since smart, shaggy-browed James Work had picked it up for $30,000, Brewster should have been sitting pretty on Dec. 7, 1941. It had 9,677 production-wise workers, a fat backlog of $242,000,000. But since that time Brewster has produced more trouble than planes. It had five changes of management (including the Navy, which ran it for a month), a rash of suits (TIME, May 10), a series of slowdowns (although Brewster has a union contract highly favorable to U.A.W.-C.I.O...
...sweaty research has gone into adapting steel to cartridges for the hungry gullets of tommy guns, Brownings, Chicago pianos and automatic cannon. The researchers had plenty of troubles. One of the worst was the shortage of such alloying elements as nickel, chromium, tung sten and molybdenum. But eventually they developed a noncritical steel which would expand on firing to seal the breech, then contract quickly enough to permit ejection of the empty case...