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...prize catch was one battleship (the Haruna) sunk by Captain Colin Kelly off Luzon, and a fair swap for the sinking of the one battleship (Arizona) irrevocably lost at Pearl Harbor. Other Japanese warships also sunk: one carrier, four cruisers, ten destroyers, seven submarines. Noncombatant ships (freighters, tankers, etc.) known sunk...
...when a Federal judge ended the year-old trusteeship of mercurial Hupp Motor Car Corp. Hupp has paid all delinquent and current taxes, has cutaits RFC loan 30% to $550,000, will pay all creditors $1 on the $1. Even common shareholders will not be wiped out. They can swap 100 old shares...
Meanwhile Congress tables a bill extending the 40-hour work week (while the majority of the nation would have it stretched to 60 hours), vetoes it because the laborites make a mutual "I'll vote for you if you'll vote for me" swap with the farm bloc. So Singapore, Malaya, Java, the Philippines fall for want of equipment. When is this petty conniving, this sabotage for special privileges...
Earl Perkins decided that something must be done. He called in a real-estate agent, asked him to sell or trade the house. Parker called on the same agent, made the same proposition. The agent introduced the Perkinses to the Parkers. Their wives liked each other. Upshot: a swap, home for home, even-Stephen for the duration. Each agreed not to sell or rent his own house for at least a year. They hired the same truck, halved their moving expenses. Perkins pays his $31.44 FHA charge each month, Parker pays $31.59 on his house. Perkins now drives three miles...
...this ruinous situation most dealers blame tough local rationing boards, claim that they keep releases far below the law's legal limit. Thus when a busy New York doctor tried to swap his many-miled Studebaker for a 1942 model he was turned down flat. Reason: his old car was registered in his wife's name...