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Long Knives. Last week hill farmers (growers of coffee, sugar and corn) and their wives crowded into Marsella, taking their preschool children for inoculations. All wore their Sunday best, the women in bright yellow, green or blue rayon dresses with black shawls, most of them in sneakers instead of sandals, and the men in white capes or ponchos and carrying long, narrow-bladed machetes...
...steel. Since the '20s he has converted Cleve land's M. A. Hanna Co. from a foundering hodgepodge of mines and miscellany into a skillfully integrated corporation with holdings worth $250 million. The M. A. Hanna Co. dominates coal and iron mines, ships, banks, chemical plants, a rayon plant, a steel corporation-and is now deep in an enormous ore project in Labrador. Humphrey's exploits made his name magic among the planners and visionaries of U.S. industry, but the public knew him hardly at all. "Business," Humphrey used to say, "is judged by performance...
...known to politicians and public, Humphrey is one of the country's liveliest (and quietest) industrialists. As head of the M. A. Hanna Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, he presides over a vast business and industrial empire which includes important interests in iron, steel, coal, copper, oil, natural gas, rayon, plastics, shipping and banking. The company was named for Mark Alonzo Hanna, Ohio's great Republican political power, who owned and ran it until he died in 1904. Humphrey resigned from his father's law firm to become general counsel for the Hanna Co. in 1918, when...
...Succession. "Our country lives in exciting days," proclaimed the party newspaper Pravda last week. All over Russia, from the smallest rayon (precinct) to the capitals of the 16 republics which make up the U.S.S.R., party bosses were picking delegates for the big event. Daily, the press ran stories about Stakhanovite workers doubling and tripling their output in honor of the forthcoming congress. Moscow's Hotel Metropole set aside its entire second floor for the incoming delegates. But, as usual, the preparations were for the most part hidden in secrecy. Even the location of the hall in which...
According to Jimmy Farrell, who is in charge of equipment, the jerseys are made of a rayon-mixture which doesn't take a dye too well; hence, the "pink" color. Come cooler weather, the darker Crimson jerseys will be used once again...