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Since 1956, he has spun together no fewer than 150 companies. They range in size from 14 to 1,400 employees, have plants in 13 countries, serve mar kets in 70. Pouring forth products from tires and car wax to cosmetics and steel, Cope Allman last year earned $8.9 million on sales of $168 million...
...Maid who defied "goons and ginks and company finks," fast-living Jackhammer John, everyone traveling a hard road, but one that provided hope, blooming with all the gladness of his folk anthem, This Land Is Your Land. The gaunt Depression minstrel, with dried-grass hair and a reedy voice, spun off the Oklahoma plains like a cloud of the "dusty old dust" in his ballads to roam the nation singing in transient camps and saloons. His best stanzas staked the folk boom of the '60s, but by then their author was a wasted invalid, "drifting along" his last road...
Owing to the instant drop in barometric pressure, windows popped like overblown balloons. Crushed marble roofs provided Beulah with ready ammunition, and car windows throughout the town looked as if they had been sprayed by machine-gun fire. Freeway signs spun through the air like giant razor blades. As the storm passed on, the stench of oil from the ruptured tanks of sunken boats saturated...
...alive. "Great job, Benny," Block would applaud. "You never sounded better." The make-believe began in 1935 at New York's WNEW when Block's boss told him to pad news bulletins from the Lindbergh kidnap trial with music. After that, it was all music, and he spun his records for New York stations almost until his death...
Through the Sidewalk. Also spun out by centrifugation are platelets, the tiny disks involved in clotting. There is still no effective way to prolong their useful life beyond four to six hours, says the center's Dr. Fred H. Allen Jr. So, as soon as they are extracted, the center rushes them to nearby hospitals, notably Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where there are always patients whose platelet count has been cut dangerously low by the drugs needed to treat their leukemia. Still other clotting factors, such as those needed by hemophilia victims, are precipitated...