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...risk. The scheme: to set up the first "auxiliary" opera troupe in Met history, and send it across the U.S. and Canada to sing nothing but Fledermaus. The troupe would bring live Met music to cities that never hear it and, Bing hoped, make a tidy profit. Cut the pauper-poor Met could not even pay the freight for such a tour...
...Creek had no geological formations indicating the presence of gold. Only Bob Womack, a cowhand, kept digging for gold in his spare time; he was called "Crazy Bob" for his pains. In January 1891, Crazy Bob struck gold, sold his claim for $500 while drunk celebrating. He died a pauper, but the field he opened up was one of the richest in the world. Out of Cripple Creek's famed mines (Golden Cycle, El Paso, Ajax, Independence, Vindicator, Isabella, Portland) poured a golden flood of more than $500 million...
Best Customer. Despite such wealth, Canada today is a sort of well-heeled pauper. Reason: the world's dollar crisis. As the U.S.'s best customer, the Dominion needs a whopping supply of U.S. dollars to keep her economy going. Traditionally, she earned some of the dollars by selling in the U.S. and the balance by selling such surpluses as grain and timber to Britain and the rest of the world. Because of the dollar shortage, Britain and many another customer have slashed their purchases in Canada, and have thus ripped apart the historic pattern of Canadian trade. This week...
...Prince & Pauper. The feast-&-famine industries were really feasting in these days of shortages. In the packing industry, Wilson & Co. stock sold at 16¾, only 2½ times 1947's per-share earnings. Sugar stocks, depressed by the fear of a big Cuban crop, were about as low. Others...
...Park Avenue princess (Martha Vickers), fond of a songwriting pauper (Robert Hutton), naturally pretends to be a girl of the people. Just as naturally, he first mistakes her for a schizophrenic kleptomaniac, next mistakes her be-limousined father for a sugar daddy. As anyone could predict, Boy eventually becomes so successful that at picture's end he can stand the shock of learning who Girl really is. Otto Kruger supplies his touch of suavity, Jack Carson his considerable comic talent, and Janis Paige her banjo eyes and pretty curves-but none of these attractions can save the tired...