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...five additional racing days a season. Texas, its oil producers already hilt-taxed, may tax natural-gas transmission companies as well. New Mexico may triple its severance tax on uranium; Nevada will collect one-fourth the state budget from legalized gambling; Florida taxes citrus growers and Maine its timber...
...Ghost Train, Belgrade's whole diplomatic corps is invited to travel by special train to Zagreb for Liberation Day. The uneasy diplomats are herded into "three long coaches made of painted and carved timber." The locomotive ("abandoned before the war by an American film company [and] tied together by wire") is stoked "white-hot" by "hairy men in cloth caps who looked like Dostoevsky's publishers." At the stop of Slopsy Blob ("named after the famous Independence fighter"), the roof of the ambassadors' coach carries away most of the top of the station and lays the diplomatic...
...President Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, who had been bounced from office by the dictator's coup eight months before his term was up and began plotting so persistently that he is still under U.S. indictment for violating the Neutrality Act. "Here was the timber of a hero," said Pro. As President, Prío had grafted a fortune; he promised to back Castro with arms and cash...
...gifts useful, or at least personal-not the welter of ashtrays, cigarette lighters, wallets, swizzle sticks, canapes, pocket knives and glassware that usually piles up in the executive closet at Christmas time. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing will send out samples of its Scotch tape products, while Seattle's Simpson Timber Co. will content itself-and many a housewife-with a box of Christmas wreaths and greens. Dozens of others will cut it out altogether. The Bank of America is just sending cards-after all, the thought is what counts. Some, like Magnolia Petroleum Co.. will pass even that token...
...After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place for a self-remade girl...