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South Carolina's little TVA was originally planned to cost $37,500,000. It has since expanded into a $57,000,000 project. When it goes into operation around Dec. 1 the Santee-Cooper development will provide public power as far north as Raleigh, as far south as Jacksonville. It will control flood waters in the sleepy swamps along the Santee that once were rich rice plantations, are now desolate hunting and fishing preserves...
...Part of the Treasury works in the three top floors of the Raleigh Hotel. Treasury files are kept in the famed old Belasco Theatre, across Lafayette Square from the White House...
Year ago she was writing a bright little shopping column for the Raleigh (N.C.) Times and Norfolk (Va.) Ledger-Dispatch. Not knowing in her ignorance that such columns usually make their modest living by contracting to advertise the wares of local manufacturers and local shops, she tried plugging nationally advertised products. Retailers loved it, paid her well...
...mechanical rights it sent $6,000 apiece to its highest paid trio-Joan Whitney, Hy Zaret & Alex Kramer-who are responsible for So You're the One, It All Comes Back to Me Now and My Sister and I. For You Walked By, Songbirds Bernie Wayne and Ben Raleigh picked up $4,000 each. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Kenrick Sparrow drew $81.84 apiece for The Rest of My Life...
Jesse Jones gave the British a break last week on the forced liquidation of British-owned U.S. companies to pay for war supplies. Satisfied that in today's market British-American Tobacco Co. might have trouble getting $40,000.000 for their Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. subsidiary (Wings, Kool, Raleigh, Avalon), he lent them the money, left them a chance to salvage their investment, when the loan is paid off in ten years...