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...Unemployment Relief Fund" that did not exist in bank records. But Frank Brewster, who by week's end had admitted that as of Dec. 31, 1956 he owed his union $79,000 and some-odd dollars, was soon being questioned about some of the oddest of those dollars...
...inflation. If, when the bonds come up for redemption-the last of them will mature in 1971-average stock prices on the Bourse have increased, the face value of the bonds will be increased proportionately. A fall in stock prices, however, will not reduce their redemption value below par. Oddest provision of all: if the public fails to buy up the issue, the government threatens to increase tax rates enough to make up the difference. In that case, citizens who have bought bonds will be allowed to turn them in as payment on the new taxes...
...outlets (v. 12,800 in 1943), have doubled. Loans to businesses by the company's foreign banking business have increased 220% since 1953. The company's 86-year-old foreign freight-forwarding operation has become the world's biggest, lands many of the world's oddest shipping assignments e.g., elephants from India, orchids from England...
...University of Wisconsin gave out the week's oddest statistic on the changing physique of the American male student. In 1926 the university's dormitories for men had only standard 6½-ft. beds. Today, because of student demand, 96 out of 1,400 beds are seven-footers. If things go on as they are, added Wisconsin, future rooms will just have to be made bigger to accommodate the bigger beds. ¶ For those worried about the nation's much publicized classroom shortage, the American School and University had some cheering news: last year the U.S. spent...
...oddest religion in the East, and the one with the most catholic pantheon, is known as Cao Dai. Founded in Saigon in the 19205, it numbers among its archangels Victor Hugo, Joan of Arc, Sun Yat-sen and Clemenceau, and boasts some 2,000,000 adherents, a private army and a pope. But Cao Dai's voluble, bright-eyed little Pope Pham Cong Tac was never able to resist meddling in secular matters. Tossing his 15,000-man army now on one side, now on the other in the delicate balance of Vietnamese politics, he succeeded only in incurring...