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...committee had hardly left New York before the powder which had spilled during ex-Fireman Crane's confession began to go off. In tones of hurried, hoarse outrage, Mayor Vincent Impellitteri gave Water Commissioner James J. Moran 24 hours to resign the $15,000-a-year lifetime job which Bill O'Dwyer had given him last summer. Next day, face ashen, hands shaking, Moran let a clutch of reporters into his Brooklyn house and read off a letter of resignation. He did not mention Crane's tale of giving him $55,000, ended up in feeble defiance...
Sidney gave her a $5,200 diamond ring. He gave her $600 worth of stone martens. He gave her a $5,800 powder-blue Cadillac convertible. The Caddie was just too much. Rosemary sold it for $3,800. Sid bought it back for $4,000 and gave it to her all over again...
This peaceful ending did not affect the long dispute involving the operating unions (enginemen, firemen, "sick" switchmen, etc.), which for the past year has periodically blown up in strikes, threats, bitter recriminations, and is still as explosive as a powder...
Sulphur is one of the mainstays of U.S. industry. It is needed for everything from steel, fertilizer and rubber, to paper, rayon and flea powder. It is also one of the most plentiful of raw materials; in its most common form-pyrites deposits (sulphur mixed with other materials)-millions of tons are found above ground all over the world. Yet last week the U.S. and the whole Western bloc of nations were short of sulphur...
...after he met a peddler named "Greasy George," he started using it regularly. To get a "fix" of heroin he had only to ask George: "Do you need a boy?" or "Have you got a thing?" For a dollar, the peddler would produce one of the capsules of white powder he kept hidden just inside the zipper of his pants. Once supplied, the boy and his friends would repair to basements or bedrooms, furtively dissolve the powder with water in a spoon and give each other shots...