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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleet books for four years at no salary. In eight years the wives got $125,000 in profits for their $4,000 investment. And Commercial Carriers had no trouble at all with Hoffa's union. ¶ Hoffa and Brennan lent Eugene James $2,000 or $2,500 to start operations of a Detroit jukebox local; in return, "Jimmie" James, later accused by a Senate investigation committee of stealing $900,000 from a welfare fund, put Hoffa's and Brennan's wives on the union payroll (using their maiden names), paid them about...
Hourani got his start in Syrian politics ten years ago as a member of a vehemently anti-Communist right-wing political party. In Syria's brief and lackluster 1948 campaign against the Palestine Jews, he served as a volunteer-and improved the hour by smuggling arms intended for the front to his personal, home-town political organization in Hama...
...nightmare began when the girls suddenly became possessed. They laughed insanely, screamed, danced, jumped about, became so frenetic that it took five men to hold one girl down. The first attack lasted five hours, but others soon followed. A girl might suddenly start screaming "He is coming! He is coming! He is going to choke me!" If another girl went to her aid, she was soon being choked too. Some girls complained of being pricked by needles, would thereupon go into a frenzy of body slapping, giggling, jumping and screaming. "One night," says an instructor, "was the worst ever...
...bigger, only the foolish believe that it can keep piling a 10% gain on 10% gain every year. But even if business activity continues to taper off during the remainder of 1957-and most areas of the economy, e.g., retail sales, new construction, are still booming-it could quickly start upward again. A Government tax cut. predicted for next year, would encourage business investment. And any loosening of the money market could stimulate more home construction, trigger postponed borrowing by business and state and local governments...
...general, first to get the vaccine would be doctors and nurses. In some areas, the police had next priority. There was little likelihood that any vaccine would be available for the general, non-priority public until October, but the absence of regulations left things open for individual physicians to start slipping shots to favored patients, and for a black market in the vaccine...