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...Preston: "[The mental hospitals are] facing a crisis...
...agreement with Tucker Corp., WAA balked, asked: "How can anybody be expected to deal with the Government if contracts with a Government agency are revoked?" And this at a time when WAA was trying to sell 48 other surplus plants in the Chicago area. Furthermore, Tucker's President, Preston Tucker, already had 165 men at work on a pilot model. Altogether, said Tucker, he had put $1.3 million of his own and his relatives' money into the project. He protested that to move now would be calamitous...
...this dream car is still largely in the dream stage. Tucker President Preston Tucker has little more than a ten-year lease (beginning next March) on a plant in Chicago, a staff of 125, a pile of blueprints. All he now needs: 1) investors to buy a $20,000,000 stock issue still to be registered with the SEC, 2) production equipment, 3) materials...
...Prompters. In the White House the word "gang" does not necessarily have a sinister connotation. Most U.S. Presidents have had their gangs, some big, some little, some called one thing, some called another. Jackson had the "Kitchen Cabinet"; its chief cooks were two Kentucky editors, Amos Kendall and Francis Preston Blair. Wilson had Colonel House. Teddy Roosevelt had his "Tennis Cabinet," the "high-minded and efficient set" of young men which included Gifford Pinchot and James G. Garfield. Harding had Harry Daugherty and Albert Fall, who belonged to his official Cabinet and doubled as part of the gang...
Written overseas in Italy, the song was arranged for complete orchestration for $35 by Franco Mele, one of Rome's leading night club pianists, and was copywrighted later in this country and recorded at Burrier's expense by Preston Sandiford, a Negro pianist in Boston...