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Maritime Commission got rid of its biggest white elephant-the Normandie. The once-proud liner had cost the French $60 million to build, had cost the U.S. Government another $11 million to salvage and maintain. Last week the Commission sold her for scrap. Price...
...Scrap of Paper." Pittsburgh's Democratic Mayor David Lawrence, a friend of labor, wrung his hands, took a plague-on-both-your-houses stand. He charged that the Duquesne company was "suffering from a hardening process that a monopoly always suffers," said the union was "ill-advised." Then he acted...
...welfare was involved. One minute before George's deadline, Judge Walter P. Smart, a Democrat, forbade the strike, ordered top officials of the company's complicated hierarchy* to sit down with George. But the injunction only postponed the showdown. George called the injunction a mere "scrap of paper," struck anyhow...
Reporters on a daily drudge through the Surrogate's Court in Poughkeepsie leaped hungrily last week upon a rare scrap of news. A millionaire's name over a drab set of tax-appraisal figures made their story. The name: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...save time, V.E. and his wife (they have two sons) live only a few blocks from his office, in a small Park Avenue apartment cluttered with hunting prints, a 1,000-volume sporting library, piles of personal scrap books. He also has a 475-acre farm outside Ithaca, N.Y. He very seldom touches liquor, favors lemonade. His only vice is chain-smoking. To match his thinking, the cigarets are king-sized...