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...Cronin, proprietor of Jim's Place, and Police Chief Patrick F. Ready both said that they expect no trouble from the Yale game throngs. Cronin admitted that his establishment "won't be the most restful place in the world" over the weekend, but he stated, "We've never had a riot here; we don't expect one. All the riots take place up in the Square or the Yard...
...encourage business Tito has relaxed his nationalization program. Talking to a camera store proprietor in Bled, I found that he was an independent. Like the 1930 NEP in Russia, small trades may remain individually operated provided they do not exceed a certain number per district. A free market in grain and other food stuffs also exists...
...night he was driven to Riverhead (pop. 4,892), the county seat 60 miles away from the paper's office, where he would not be recognized, and dropped off near a bar. Kellerman hung around the bar, making an obvious show of casing the place, while the proprietor and his wife eyed him suspiciously. After closing time Kellerman went around to the back, broke in through a window and made for the cash register. As he had expected, the suspicious couple returned. While the owner held Kellerman at bay with a stout whisky bottle, his wife called the cops...
...under attack by gnats. His family's firm, Cartwright's Ltd., had been making paint in Lancashire for 235 years. His plant at Oldham had been recently equipped with paint-making machinery to turn out 1,000,000 gallons a year, but try as he would, Proprietor Cartwright could not up his production beyond a quarter of that figure. Mollycoddling unions, idiotic government policies that let Japan and Germany grab good British markets, slackness, laziness, incompetence, stupidity-these were just some of the gnats that buzzed around the head of Chairman Cartwright as he sat at his desk...
Charles Kohen, proprietor of an art and curio shop in Washington, shooed off ordinary customers one day last week. "The place is full of Secret Service men," he explained to one chance telephone caller, the New York Times's Reporter Paul Kennedy. "I've got a very important visitor coming." Thirty minutes later, accompanied by more Secret Service men, the important visitor slipped in the door: the President of the U.S. was hunting a nice picture to give his wife for their home back in Independence...