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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Benjamin Thurlow Ballou is as sweet as a cluster of lollipops. Though he is only three years old, Benjy is the best little tot in Smiles, Pa., and he always does just what his Mummy tells him. In the morning he puts on his little pink shoes and his little pink sugarplum bathrobe all by himself, and at night he puts his cute little toys neatly away in his playbox. All this makes Benjy feel "toasty-warm all over." and he can't help snuggling up to his mother and saying, "I'm gwad you my Mummy...
Prices & Revenues. Beset on all sides, the indispensable man everyone would like to dispense with naturally takes a somewhat sour view of his own profession. "This is a stinking business," says Mike Venanzio. proprietor of a small repair shop in Ambridge, Pa. "Every drugstore and five & ten, I don't care where, can sell radios and TVs at cut-rate prices. They don't have to worry about service. If something breaks down, they don't fix it. The people come to me. If I charge a decent price because I can do a good job, they...
Harrisburg, Pa...
...rubber-stamp ranch-house community of Levittown, Pa. (pop. 60,000), the vacant house at 30 Darkleaf Lane last week came alive with a distinction all its own. From one roof peak flew an American flag, and from another-spotlighted by night-the stars and bars of the Confederacy. Each evening the house of the Confederacy was crowded with the members of the newly formed Dogwood Hollow Social Club who worked hard at a hard-boiled bad-neighbor policy. With windows wide open they chattered loudly over coffee, volumed up a phonograph, harmonized on Old Black Joe, aiming all this...
...industry, which has moved its exploration steadily westward, came news last week that sent wildcatters racing back East. Near Conneaut, Ohio, only 50 miles from the first U.S. well at Titusville, Pa., a rich well came in in an area everyone thought was exhausted. The flow: an initial 6,720 bbl. daily v. an average ½ bbl. daily for the only remaining wells near by. The name of the man responsible for the strike was no surprise. He is old Mike Benedum, 88, the king of the wildcatters and a man who says proudly: "I have unloosed more oil than...