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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who didn't sell their crops to the Government benefited by the artificially inflated price in retail markets. One potato farmer salted away $13,160 from a 30-acre farm which cost him only $3,000 ten years ago. Another made $50,000 in four years off his 144 acres. Farm laborers were doing almost as well: up to $25 a day for following the digging machines; $15 to $25 a day for planting...
...prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem which had been renamed the Givat Herzl (Herzl's Hill). In groups of ten, farmers, workers, businessmen, old settlers and new immigrants slowly walked by and emptied bags of earth into the grave. A rabbi read the Kaddish (prayer for the dead). Drums sounded. Then the great crowd, estimated at 100,000, sang Hatikvah, the Zionist anthem...
Although the Reds yip that Coca-Cola has landed an "army of workers," shiploads of machinery and trucks, Coca-Cola has only ten Americans on its Italian staff (Italian employees run into the thousands). The company uses Italian equipment in making the drink (as in the U.S., Coca-Cola restricts itself to the sale of syrup, leaving the more profitable bottling operation to local businessmen), employs Italian printers for advertising and uses Italian trucks for distribution. Isotta Fraschini has just produced a truck which the company thinks is better-looking than the American design, and which it plans to export...
Snub-nosed, ruddy-cheeked Bill Keady had been practically raised by Avery. He joined U.S. Gypsum's marine department in 1924 after quitting the Navy (Annapolis, class of 1916). A vice president in charge of operations when he was 38, he was Avery's choice for president ten years later in 1942. As Keady took over more & more of the company's operations, Chicagoans almost forgot that Avery had anything to do with Gypsum...
...Victorian lifetime is like the story of a civilization in Toynbee: the whole age is embodied in it. Born in 1809, he was descended from the yeomanry and the county families that together bred England's great middle class. The north-country parsonage of his childhood tumbled with ten brothers & sisters; at seven he had to be able to chirp from memory the four books of Horace's Odes...