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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mellon sat at the head of the family board,* which could measure its wealth by the wealth of top U.S. industries: Gulf Oil, Koppers, Aluminum Co. of America, the Mellon Bank and the General Reinsurance Co., which have total assets of more than $3.3 billion, and in which the Mellons have absolute or dominant control; First Boston Corp., Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., Westinghouse Air Brake Co., Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., in all of which the Mellons have large interests...
...Much Housing. While such strides were being made, culture was getting its attention, too. R. K. Mellon was having Carnegie Museum scrubbed and painted and rearranged. Mellon and his friends had contributed a total of some $28 million for artistic and educational projects...
...Teapot Dome furore finally died; Harry Sinclair served out a total of nine months in jail (for contempt of court and of the Senate investigating committee), and Fall went to prison, later died in disgrace. Exile Blackmer stayed at his chateau in France. Even World War II caused him little inconvenience. He was technically a fugitive from justice and had no passport, but when France fell to the Nazis the Swiss welcomed him, his money and his third wife "Kaja," a buxom Norwegian opera singer...
...ranks of the jobless dwindled by 333,000 in September in the second successive monthly drop in unemployment shown in the late-summer business upswing. The Census Bureau reported a decline to a total of 3,351,000 unemployed...
Dean Sherman credited the large pro total to the fact that in the sophomore year girls found it difficult to work the gym program into their courses of study. In special cases of a failure in any one gym period, the College, she added, waives probation rules through the fall term...