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...routes and subsidies. He succeeds Joseph G. Minetti, who was appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board. The first Government career man ever to serve on the maritime unit, Stakem worked his way through college and law school in Washington, D.C. as a $900-a-year clerk in the U.S. Patent Office. He joined the FBI in 1934, quit nine years later to head investigations of skulduggery in World War II shipbuilding and postwar surplus-ship sales, saw his work culminate in heavy fines against Greek Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis and others. In 1951 he became the top-ranking career...
...British government clerk and yearns to be a full-fledged, "civilized," Christian Briton. But, even in his bumbling and his guile, the sunny-natured, light-fingered, childlike clerk is miles from his models. An orphan of two cultures, he carries a furled umbrella while walking barefoot, with his patent leather pumps hanging about his neck...
...Japanese drugstores sell virtually nothing but patent medicines, while doctors themselves dispense nearly all prescriptions-at a handsome profit. Angered by a government proposal to let patients have prescriptions filled anywhere they choose, the Japan Medical Association last week voted to refuse treatment to patients under the state insurance plan. The government decided to ignore the doctors' lobby, go ahead and break their prescription monopoly...
...research in the graphic arts." The organizers realized that the printing and publishing industry was not research conscious, and that specific research projects would be required to attract the needed, initial financial support. Consequently, Photon was chosen as the basis of the Foundation's first project. It owns all patents and patent applications under which Photon, Inc., is licensed. Since it is a non-profit organization, however, its share of the profits of the manufacturing licensee are immediately turned over for further research in the graphic arts field...
Huey got a job selling Cottolene, an oil shortening, and he hopped about from farm to farm telling stories, baking cakes, quoting the Bible, and proclaiming: "I can sell anybody anything." Earl followed, selling shoe polish, stove polish, patent medicine. When Huey moved on to study law, so did Earl; when Huey entered state politics, so did Earl...