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...Amen (rhymes with layman). His charge: Brooklyn gamblers annually forked out $1,000,000 to cops who winked at their $100,000,000 bookmaking business. His proof: 1,500 feet of film recording payoffs; evidence, collected by a squad of special sleuths, that Brooklyn cops bought, with their boodle, outboard motorboats, small cruisers, summer homes, automobiles, $1,000 fur coats for their wives, real estate. Named by Amen grand juries were 49 cops...
...John and his colleagues decided that their best chance of avoiding the invading armies was to head for the coast and find a boat to take them to Greece. Finally four of them set out down the Adriatic in a 20-ft. sardine boat with a one-lunged outboard motor and a sail...
...first night the outboard conked out and they nearly swamped trying to row in a gale and rainstorm. Next day they landed and persuaded a Yugoslav carpenter who had once worked in Philadelphia to come along and help them work the boat. For three days and two nights they sailed down the Adriatic, dodging Italian mines and mine layers. Since no one in the boat knew anything about navigation, they steered by the stars in the southern sky, and did not figure out until weeks later why they were headed nearly due west each morning...
Slow-spoken Homer Price was orphaned at eleven, at 16 went to work as a machinist. During World War I he machined for the U.S. Navy; after the Armistice he got his job at the Pen. Because his wife and daughter were interested in outboard motor racing, Homer Price in 1923 bought a bench drill press and lathe, installed them in his dining room, made parts for outboard motors which he sold commercially. (That is how the Cleveland Pump people heard about him.) His wife "is more at home in a machine shop than in a kitchen...
Metal shortages have already cut into an odd assortment of consumers' goods: zippers, outboard motors, dollar watches, bicycles, compacts. Home builders now have trouble getting pumps, electric motors, bathtubs, copper tubing, brass fittings, light fixtures. A good share of the extra dollars that U.S. consumers have to spend will go into bigger purchases of food (of which the U.S. has enough, ex cept for temporary shortages like toma toes and salmon, bought up by the Army and the British). More will go for "soft" consumers' goods like clothes (the U.S. has a 9,000,000-bale cotton surplus...