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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro followers (he claims 250,000) in 29 U.S. cities as Elijah Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, head of a stern, demanding, disciplined black-supremacist religious sect called "the Moslems."* Calmly feeding the rankling frustration of urban Negroes, the Moslems reach deep among the least-educated, lowest-paid Negroes jammed into big-city slums from Harlem to Los Angeles. Muhammad's virulent anti-Americanism and antiSemitism, plus his elite corps of dark-suited, shaven-polled young "honor guards," has lifted him well beyond the run-of-the-street crackpot Negro nationalist groups. The Moslems are of rising concern...
...sport? Well, if it was not much like a Rugger match or punting on the Thames, Britons were having a mighty good time just the same. Half a century ago, London's Daily Mail put up a prize for the first airplane flight across the English Channel, paid French Aeronaut Louis Bleriot $5,000 for buzzing the 31 miles from Calais to Dover in his tiny (25 h.p.) monoplane in 37 minutes. Last week the Daily Mail could think of no better way to celebrate the anniversary than to have a cross-Channel race, this time between London...
...Budget. When he got to Hollywood, Bill began a long series of low-budget pictures. They were equally low on profits. Then, in 1957, he made a horror film called Macabre. It was not much of a picture-in fact, it was a wretched thing -but Bill paid Lloyds of London $5,000 for life insurance covering anyone in the audience who died of fright. The picture cost only $80,000, grossed an estimated $1,200,000. This year, Bill released The House on Haunted Hill. The picture cost $150,000, but he spent $250,000 manufacturing skeletons that dance...
...Though the collection is not all first caliber, there are some great works, especially of sculpture (see color pages). Valued at $5,000,000, it was put together in the early part of the century by a Japanese shipbuilder named Kojiro Matsukata, who bought largely by lot, and reportedly paid between $15 million and $20 million all told. Because the Japanese government imposed a 100% duty on art works, Matsukata kept the bulk of his collection in Paris and London. The London half was bombed out in World War II; the Paris half was hidden deep in a Norman well...
Hard-pressed U.S. railroads figure their featherbedding bill at $500 million a year. In 1958, calculates the Interstate Commerce Commission, rail crews worked only 57% of the hours for which they were paid. Each diesel engine must carry a fireman as a holdover from the days of steam locomotives-though he does almost nothing. Each crewman draws a full day's pay for every 100 miles he covers (because that is the way it was done back in 1919); some collect up to 4½ days' pay for eight hours of travel time. Says the president...