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...April 26: The six-year-old Guffey Coal Act, which outlawed price-cutting on bituminous coal, expires...
...emergency brake was pulled last week on one of the most profitable, fastest-growing of U.S. wartime markets - used trucks. OPA put a ceiling over used-truck prices as of April 26, scaled maximum prices from 68% of the new price (six-year-old trucks) to 97% of the new price (trucklets six months young or less...
Chicago Tax Shark. Star of the performance was Quiz Kid Kupperman of Chicago, a pale, sturdy, brown-eyed six-year-old who spoke somewhat juicily, thanks to a natural lisp and the recent shedding of three teeth. He had no trouble figuring the normal tax on $2,650 without pencil or paper. He also volunteered the belief that the United Nations were sure to win the war because he had so many friends and relatives...
Self-contained six-year-old Joel Kupperman, youngest of the radio Quiz Kids, took his first long train trip, was spellbound by the porter's berth-making technique. In Manhattan the Chicago prodigy told newsmen that he planned to be a farmer when he grew up. "I want to grow food and supplies for the Army for the next war," said he. This one, he thought, might...
Horseshoe-Nail Gayle. In Newington, Conn., six-year-old Gayle Grant got out of bed for a drink of water, turned on a bathroom faucet, couldn't turn it off, waded to the telephone, wept into it incoherently, alarmed the operator, who turned in a fire alarm. The siren sounded a raid alert instead, just as a factory whistle blew. The countryside was aroused; the state prison gathered itself for an emergency; air wardens by the hundreds scurried to their posts...