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Nevertheless, when the Band has to scrape the bottom of its financial barrel, as it is doing now, nobody seems to give a damn. The H.A.A. just shakes its head over a ream of red-inked ledgers and the alumni point apologetically to the new income tax laws; there is no money coming from either source. That leaves the Band's future up to students...
Only two weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 27), the Defense Production Administration indicated that it would reject Harvey's plan, for failure to agree on terms. The loan had been conditioned on his raising $7,000,000 capital of his own, and the most he could scrape up was half that amount. Last week DPA changed its mind, approved the loan to Harvey anyway. Under the terms, he has 18 months to raise the other $3,500,000, but he can draw from RFC on the loan as soon as he puts up $2,000,000 in working capital...
...staffers for scoops. He tangled with almost everybody. "I'm like a loaf of yeast bread," he liked to say. "The more they knead me the higher I rise." He always carried a revolver and sometimes even drew it, though his aim was so bad that in one scrape he fired at an antagonist and shot his chief editorial writer...
...London less than two weeks when he got news from Scotland that he was the father of a son, the result of a brief affair in Edinburgh. The child died before Boswell saw him, but not before Boswell had righteously admonished the mother "not to fall into such a scrape again...
...narrow escape here about two or three days ago. Lost a lot of good men. Hope we never get into a scrape like that again. Present time we're trying to regroup...