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...process of taking over three major-league profes sional teams, an arena and a radio station to broadcast games, Nick Mileti has put up only $1.2 million himself, and most of that has been borrowed from banks...
...outflow of billions of dollars from the U.S. by floating the greenback against other currencies. Reuss has no regrets: "The markets were in turmoil already, and I simply stated that the emperor had no clothes." Then Reuss put his knowledge of economics to work and lined up congres sional backing for formal devaluation...
...political climate of the thirties denuded the last of the Horatio Algers and radicalized intellectuals, but the middle class reached for alternative ways out. Holywood became their one-dimen-sional Mecca, dance marathons and polesitting were popularized, and newspapers began running columns of advice for lost souls. West's last three novels, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million and The Day of the Locust, use these vaudvillian antics not satirically, but with an eye to the deep pain that necessitated them...
...strike by the Lithographers International. The Lithographers International is a high-powered union with a reputation for exceedingly good settlements. Harvard, these observers reason, fears that other unions would use the settlement that the Lithographers would get as a target for their own attempts. And unions with profes- sional bargaining agents like the Crafts Council would stand a very good chance of getting similar settlements...
Since he took over three years ago, hard-driving Dan Parker has given up his sports-car racing hobby in favor of 19-hour working days (with an occa sional five-minute nap). Under him the company has pushed its sales to record levels ($43.3 million last year) and, best of all, has won the race against rising costs: its earnings last year jumped...