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...proposal that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. each designate within their borders a 20,000-30,000 sq.mi. area that would be open to inspection teams from the other country. In these areas, which would have no atomic installation but would have at least one port, one airfield, one railway terminal and some military forces, the inspection teams would be free to carry out aerial photography, watch all traffic and check on military installations. This plan, according to the U.S. theory, would be a quick means of getting disarmament started and of establishing mutual trust. It would also provide...
...consistent profits ($59 million in fiscal 1955), he became an ardent booster, hand-picked Waugh and backed his policy of increasing the flow of loans. Now President Waugh is funneling out new loans at a greater rate than last year. Among them: $19.6 million to the Santos-Jundiai Railway in Brazil, $3,300,000 to Chile for more steel, $14 million to Iran, $65 million to the Philippines for general economic development...
...over from the old country and made a killing on the California wine market. When the pressure of business subsided, middle-aged Tony saw he needed a woman, and sure enough, some pretty little Frisco waitress sends him a post-card professing love. On his way to the village railway station to meet her, Tony is drunk with triumph and a good deal of his own vino. His truck crashes, Tony is hurt, and henceforth is confined to a wheel-chair. He entreats his dear, departed but heaven-bound Mama (who apparently materializes for Tony somewhere in the vacant last...
...mayor of Salem to the state senate to governor. Morse, propelled by his erratic genius, soared to position virtually independent of party. He served with distinction as dean of the University of Oregon Law School, later entered upon a glittering career under Franklin Roosevelt, first as chairman of the Railway Emergency Board, then as a member of the War Labor Board. In 1944 he ran for the U.S. Senate from Oregon on the Republican ticket-mostly, he now says, because the Democrats, who offered him their nomination, were short of campaign money...
When Chicago Lawyer Ben W. Heineman set out to get control of Chicago & North Western Railway a fortnight ago, he told the North Western board of directors that he preferred a peaceful alliance to a proxy war. This week, after ten days of fast-express negotiations, Heineman and North Western agreed on an alliance. Heineman will take over as full-time board chairman and chief executive officer of North Western, give up both his law practice and his connections with Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, which he took over almost two years ago. But he did not get his demand...