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...Gettysburg, where his uncle and namesake was killed. His Pennsylvania Dutch family was moderately well off, and Sam, the second of six children, became a country schoolteacher at 17. After seven years of frugally saving part of his $25-a-month salary, he bought a notions store in Nanticoke, Pa.; three years later he bought out a wholesaler in Wilkes-Barre and looked around for something worthy of his talents...
...have to look far. In 1879 F. W. Woolworth had founded the country's first five & ten, in Lancaster, Pa...
Numismatist. In McKeesport, Pa., searched by the cops who nabbed him as he fled from the premises of the Tube City Lumber Co. with $5.20 in change stuffed and jingling in his shoes, Herbert W. Gailey, 33, explained: "I save dimes." Surprise! Near Warren, Ohio, after her husband bought an 1,800-lb. elephant to give her "something different" for her birthday, Mrs. Orla Drum proudly said that it was just what she wanted, planned to put it with the other animals in the zoo she keeps on her farm...
Dodds received his A.B. from the Grove City (Pa.) College in 1909, an M.A. from Princeton in 1914, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania...
...spectacular success in attracting payrolls. In Tyler, Texas, where an industrial foundation supported by local businessmen will build a plant to a newcomer's specifications, and rent or sell it back to him at going rates, 40 new industries have moved in within ten years. In Scranton, Pa., a city development commission has rallied more than 3,400 investors who have contributed $3,500,000 to build more than 25 plants that have added $23 million in new paychecks. In traditionally low-income areas, e.g., Mississippi, where generous inducements have been offered industry since 1936, 99 new plants have...