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...press each week -rushed overland to them by the fastest trains. But since 1935 our circulation in booming California has been growing 50% faster than the average. Percentagewise we now have more readers there than has any other front-rank magazine. In fact, one out of every thirteen California families reads TIME each week-and it takes more than 130,000 copies for this one state alone...
Leadville is on the up, in any case. Thirteen miles away, at Climax, the world's largest molybdenum mine is booming; Leadville's streets are jampacked. Reopening of the old flooded zinc mines on Leadville's famed four rich ore hills may keep Leadville's up-&-down prosperity curve steadily climbing...
...Thirteen days before Dodger President Branch Rickey made last week's pronouncement, the editor & publisher of The Sporting News had gingerly suggested that behavior problems, not salary bickering, were separating Brooklyn's president and manager. Durocher's five-year record was good: one pennant, two seconds, two thirds. But last season the Dodgers had a player revolt, barely finished third. Lippy Leo was as flashy a figure along high-living Broadway as in Ebbets Field. Knowing Rickey's puritanism, many a sportswriter flatly forecast the lumps...
...British Military Court in Jerusalem last week came Eliahu Sacharoff. The charge: illegal possession of a bullet. Legally he was allowed twelve. Thirteen were found. The sentence: seven years' imprisonment...
...Thirteen months ago the 15 nonoperating unions began seeking a blanket 20? an hour raise on the grounds that they were suffering under a "gross inequity" in wages (typical inequity: the average railroad employe gets 84? an hour; a shipyard worker...