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...help pay company debts, the board will try to sell two of its seven subsidiaries, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. and Quick-Way Truck Shovel Co. Then it hopes to build up its most promising subsidiary, Pratt & Whitney Co., a machine-toolmaker (no kin to the aircraft-engine firm), while it figures out what to do with Penn-Texas' 46% block of Fairbanks, Morse stock...
...deal were secret, but there was no secret about the richness of the prize. Though D'el Key's British owners dug nearly $300 million worth of gold over the years from a maze of galleries running five miles into the earth, they never laid a serious shovel on the iron. In fact, they had bought the lematite ridges humping hundreds of feet high around the property only to protect water rights for their gold mining. Hanna will modernize the gold mine, but the main play is iron...
...students, one armed with a shovel, the other with a knife, attacked a third boy in the cafeteria. Last fortnight a 13-year-old girl was reportedly raped in the school basement. Later a hoodlum from the outside punched a policeman on the school grounds, and two other hoodlums, also from the outside, assaulted the school's recreation director. As a result of these incidents, Principal George Goldfarb, 55, was twice called before a special grand jury investigating juvenile delinquency in the schools. He was supposed to appear a third time last week...
Digging its power shovel into the violence-prone International Union of Operating Engineers, whose 270,000 members run most of the nation's cranes, bulldozers, drilling rigs, etc., the Senate labor-management rackets investigating committee dug another truckload of dirt out of what passes for organized labor in some sectors...
...shovel all the walks in front of our own property," said Cecil Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, in response to student charges that many streets fronting University property had been left untended during the recent snowstorm...