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...food-&-fun palace as "the saloon," but it is a red, white & blue giant, seating 3,700, employing 190 waitresses, 100 entertainers in the show and two dance bands (Jack Denny's & Johnny Gilbert's), 25 barkeeps at a 400-foot balcony-bar. Todd runs this monstrous pub on the principle of low prices and big volume. He charges 50? admission, offers dinners from 75? up, a champagne cocktail for 25?. His publicity boasts that he makes the quarter-of-a-dollar "the largest single unit of entertainment buying power in the entire history of the show business...
...triumphs in Norway, would have meant that the admirals yielded an inch or so in the hot controversy between sea and air power. Naval officers in Washington privately suggested that Mr. Edison was a bit of an ignoramus. Charles Edison was glad enough to turn his portfolio over to Pub lisher Frank Knox and get elected Governor of New Jersey...
...Pont workers might tipple in Charles-town's pub, but drinking within the company's property limits was taboo. Finding an empty whiskey powdered it, bottle, Du matched the Pont sleuths fingerprints on it with reportedly a set in the company files, discharged the guilty worker...
...Minister of Labor he has so ably unmuddled his department that his hold on the popular imagination is the greatest political phenomenon of the war. Built like a beer barrel, ungrammatically eloquent Bevin wedged himself into the revised Cabinet as the apex of pyramiding trade-union strength. No mere pub gabble was the talk of Bevin as "our next Prime Minister." However, there were no signs last week that Prime Minister Churchill was missing any political busses...
...worst, was not the only civilian hazard. When the poor lost their homes, they lost every thing. When factories were bombed they lost next to everything - their jobs. Cer tain occupations, such as dancing in cho ruses and picking up men on street corners, were completely bombed out. Pub owners lost most of their business. Luxury shops did no selling. Crime, or at least its detection, took a holiday: for the first time in the memory of living men the Bow Street Police Court booked no charges for a whole...