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After school and college (St. Francis Xavier's, New York Law School) he began haunting Tin Pan Alley. He scribbled song lyrics for years. He was 28 years old before his Uncle James Roon marched him down to a Tammany boss, Charles W. ("Cash & Carry") Culkin, and got him elected to the State Assembly...
...increased overnight on scarce materials and products being made at a loss. Procter & Gamble, and other soapmakers, jacked up wholesale soap prices an average of 50%. General Electric and Westinghouse led the way in upping small motors, refrigerators, washers, ironers, etc., from 10% to 60%. Zinc, copper, lead, and tin also zoomed. In the first two days of free trading, the prices of 28 such major commodities jumped (according to an OPA estimate) an average of 7.4%. Some of the leaps were fantastic. Example: glycerin, which had been controlled at 18? a pound, jumped 12? one day, 30? the next...
...gracefully consented to move when the Navy told them that a monstrous Thing would blast their island. Rongerik, some 100 miles to the southeast, was just as large, just as green as Bikini, and it had more coconuts and pandanus fruit. By last week Rongerik's huts had tin roofs and wooden floors; there was a big water cistern, a radio, a fine council house. But Rongerik was not home...
...nimble little man (116 Ibs.) of elusive gaze and elusive ways. The police chief of Cornwall Township, Ont., aptly named Robert Henry Hawkshaw, had been after him ever since Lama's wife and nine-year-old daughter were found last Aug. 16, murdered with a knife, in the tin-covered Lama shack. There were "at least 71 reports that he'd been seen," but every time the police got there, Lama "had gone...
Peron's purposes were plain: to win the new regime to his treaty for customs and passport union, perhaps then to put Bolivia in almost the same relation to Argentina as Austria was to Hitler's Germany. Last week he was reported demanding tin and rubber from Bolivia to implement his new five-year plan (TIME...