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...Fulton Lewis Jr., the Washington Times-Herald, and seven other individuals, charging that they had conspired to hold him up to "public scorn and ridicule" and scare away potential sponsors for his radio program. It was Pearson's third suit against Pegler. He withdrew the first (for $25,-ooo) in 1946 after he and Pegler had made a gentleman's agreement to stop calling each other names. Still pending is a second (for $250,000), filed last year after Pegler stopped being a gentleman and called Pearson a "lying blackguard...
Beardsley Ruml thought differently. Back in Manhattan, he set about rounding up businessmen and raising money ($125,-ooo to date) for the battle, which begins this week when the House Ways & Means Committee reopens its hearings on the proposed tax. Last week Ruml announced that more than 100 top businessmen had joined in forming the Business Committee on Emergency Corporate Taxation, enlisted the help of such onetime New Dealers as ex-Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt and ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson to marshal their case at the hearings...
...with handsome houses .set off by spacious lawns from the tree-lined streets. Its civic boosters proudly call it "the richest square mile of residential area in Canada." The village has also become the chief residential zone of prosperous Toronto Jews, who today make up 40% of its 18,-ooo inhabitants. There has been little anti-Semitic friction in Forest Hill, however; the village long has been proud of that...
...estimated, for example, that 100,-ooo casualties would require 600,000 pints of blood over a period of six weeks. It would take 17 freight cars to hold that many pint bottles. To distribute it to casualty stations the city would have to mobilize every vehicle with a refrigeration unit, from meat trucks down to Good Humor wagons...
Across the South Atlantic, Republic Steel Corp. was working a concession in the rich mountain area of Liberia. Within two years it hoped to be shipping 1,000,-ooo tons of iron ore a year from Monrovia to steel mills...