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...Possible Record. Modern inheritance taxes put collectors in a dilemma; in a large estate, if a collection is bequeathed intact, the heirs must scrape up and give the Government cash equal to as much as 61% of the value of the art-even more in some cases. Fribourg ordered that after his death his collection should be auctioned; if he had left it to his wife, she would have had to raise cash in the millions to keep it. He lamented that he would not be present at the auction. "This will be the biggest sale of the century," Fribourg...
...John A. McCone, an estimated 40 crops will have to be raised and discarded before the radiation in the soil can be brought within "acceptable limits." But before the 41st harvest, most people will die of starvation or radiation poisoning. The alternative, according to the federal government, is to scrape off the topsoil, with large earth moving equipment--such as motorizer scrapers and motor graders." Naturally this presupposes a plentiful supply of motor vehicles, gasoline, trained vehicle operators, food to sustain the workers, farmers to plan the new crops, crops to plant, and sufficient farming equipment. Willard F. Libby presupposes...
When Germany's Peter Siegert, 26, boldly announced that he would lead a party up the "elevator route," the Italian Scoiattoli (literally, "squirrels") predicted that they would "scrape his remnants off the wall with a spoon." Not if Siegert could help it. For his team, he recruited two Munich friends with whom he had escaped from East Germany seven years ago: a lightning-rod fitter named Rainer Kauschke, 24, and a tough, muscular carpenter named Gerd Uner, 22. Taking unpaid leaves from their jobs, the three each chipped in $1,000 for food and medical supplies, down-lined clothes...
...area's children, the only opportunity for a square meal is a public school hot lunch-if they have the shoes to get to school. The most fortunate adults work for a third of their old wages in "dog holes"-dangerous coal mines dug by anybody who can scrape up enough cash to finance...
...university chemistry instructor, got into business out of a vague desire to do research into tobacco and to "manufacture something.'' In 1942, with a $40 grubstake, he opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg. Not until after World War II was he able to scrape up enough capital and equipment to mass-produce cigarettes-and when he did, he nearly went broke. He staved off disaster only by persuading London's Rothman of Pall Mall to allow him to make and market their brands (Pall Mall, Consulate) in South Africa...