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...scuttlebutt around Boston's sprawling Navy Yard was too hot to ignore. For a price, went the rumors, a sailor could get a peek at secret examination questions, latch on to a promotion, or wangle a cushy desk job instead of sea duty. The commandant of the First Naval District started an investigation...
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...victim had drawn into sight: Alan Valentine, the newly appointed Economic Stabilization director. He had been promisingly launched as a sensible educator, a middle-of-the-road businessman, a Quaker and a Rhodes scholar. Then the Potomac knife throwers went to work. Their efforts provided a fascinating peek at how such things work in the nation's capital...
...readers. He asked them to buy $300,000 in Compass stock at $10 a share, as a starter. As part of his sales talk, he gave out the first financial and circulation figures on the Compass' first-year operations. They gave a rare peek into the costs of starting metropolitan newspapers these days but they were hardly encouraging to would-be investors...
Only once a year does the public get a partial peek at the finances of the privately owned Ford Motor Co., which never reports its profits. Last week, in the abbreviated statement which it is required to file in Massachusetts, Ford disclosed that its assets at the end of 1949 had reached a record $1.3 billion, a gain of more than $194 million from the previous year. To the executive team which piled up the impressive score, the company last week gave some additional recognition, elected five vice presidents to the board of director:: John S. Bugas (labor relations), Lewis...