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...lifeguard on the prow of the nearer launch dove as the body appeared, floating head down in the water like a rug over a clothesline. Rescued and aboard the launch the dare-devil diver regained consciousness, complained of chills. Then he discovered that his back was broken, his body paralyzed from the waist down. With him in the boat were his wife, his mother, the lifeguard, and reporters and photographers from the San Francisco Examiner. There was no doctor. Bad enough-but then the launch's engine refused to start...
...ruthless Dictator is practical. He and Trotsky are always spitting in each other's face, but at an Oriental bazaar the rug dealers think nothing of a little saliva-and J. Stalin is to his grim fingertips an Oriental, a Georgian brigand, bomb-thrower and safe-blower who is now on terms of diplomatic friendship with fellow Dictators, Presidents, Kings. If, by invoking Trotsky as a conspirator against himself, Stalin can conveniently bump off such Old Bolsheviks in Russia as do actually get in his way from time to time, so much to the good. If there were...
...assessed $17 for each broadcast. Out-of-town musicians have to pay up when they play in Chicago. In 1933 his organization was prosperous enough for President Petrillo to build a $600,000 two-story building, to panel his office in red cedar, carpet it with a rich Oriental rug. Members of his organization pay their dues in a big room with green marble walls. They are directed to the room by an illuminated sign: STRAIGHT AHEAD TO PAY DUES...
According to the Commission the best price that a retailer could get from Bird on a certain type of rug was $4.24 in lots of 100 rolls or more. Ward got them for $3.64 in carload lots. Even when delivered in small lots to Ward's retail stores the price was only $3.82. Independent wholesalers, however, got practically as good terms as the big mail order house...
Ward's President Sewell Lee Avery had no comment to make on his end of the rug case but President Benjamin H. Roberts of Bird & Son declared: "The transaction involved in this case was made prior to the passage of the Robinson-Patman act. . . . Bird . . . has exercised great vigilance in endeavoring to observe this law and avoid any controversy. The issue in the case is of such a character as to probably clarify some doubtful provisions of this...