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Gift of Tongues. Everywhere waiters, clerks and plain citizens who could speak foreign languages were suddenly popular. The Yellow Cab company announced that it had 70 drivers capable of conversing in alien tongues, including Assyrian. Correspondents would be offered every help in the way of workrooms, telegraph service, reference material-even a volunteer corps of ex-newspapermen ready and anxious to substitute as rewrite men for correspondents bowled over by the bottle. The city was prepared to offer them plenty of entertainment-cocktail parties, ferry and airplane rides, press cards good for squaring minor infractions...
When Sloan became president of the Katy, eleven years ago, he shattered two railroad traditions: 1) he had landed at the top without working his way up from a roundhouse or telegraph desk; 2) he equipped an automobile with flanged wheels and put-putted over branch lines to save the expense of a special train...
Every part of the U.S. and Canada is now being teased-by mail, telephone and telegraph-with their slick promotion patter: "unusual opportunity" . . . "quick profits" . . . "get in on the ground floor." Discharged servicemen, who get lump-sum mustering-out pay, are given top priority; a Buffalo, N.Y. ex-serviceman began receiving tip sheets from Toronto within a few days after a Buffalo paper printed his picture...
Unwanted Children. All this was only one side of the argument. Before the committee makes up its mind and perhaps a new U.S. policy, it plans to hear from all sides, particularly from the 13 companies concerned. Some of them, notably International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and Radio Corp. of America, which generally favor the merger, have had nothing to say so far on Forrestal's proposal...
...million International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. manufacturing plant in Budapest is assumed destroyed...