Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perish to Death. A Kentucky Baptist preacher's son, Channing Cope went to sea at 15 and didn't get his shore legs back until he was 26; later he was by turns pressagent, lawyer, radio broadcaster and farmer. When Cope put down his first payment on rundown, worn-out Yellow River Farm in 1927, the county agent predicted that he would "perish to death" before he got a living out of it; now, with hired hands doing the work, Cope nets $11,000 a year...
...Trib told the story of Paul Grindle, an ex-Herald Tribune staffer and now a Massachusetts furnituremaker, who went to Washington a month ago hoping to sell furniture to federal agencies. There Grindle met Hunt and was quickly impressed by his "influence"; Hunt's offices were decorated with autographed photos of prominent politicos, including Harry Truman. Hunt rattled off the names of his "friends," including Presidential Military Aide Harry Vaughan ("my closest and dearest friend"), Louis Johnson, and others. Hunt, according to Grindle, claimed that he had swung many deals. Among them was the repurchase from the War Assets...
...Long Island Rail Road last year carried more passengers (109 million) than any other road in the U.S., yet it went bankrupt three months ago. Why? Thousands of commuters who ride in & out of Manhattan every day on its crowded, squalid, undependable trains have long thought that they had the answer to that question: they thought that the Pennsylvania Railroad, which owns the Long Island, drove its subsidiary on the rocks by overcharging it for services rendered and underpaying it for services received...
...bankruptcy, the Long Island is still being run by David E. Smucker, the chief operating officer of the road before it went broke and now one of the trustees. He had no comment. This week the Pennsy talked back, saying: "The commission has not . . . unearthed anything new or anything that has been kept secret by the Pennsylvania ... A complete misunderstanding of the facts." The road also noted that the New York Public Service Commission had once said there was "little basis" for the impression that the Pennsy had been draining the Long Island...
...shakeup in the Moscow high command replaced Foreign Minister Molotov with Andrei Vishinsky, and to the important post of First Deputy Foreign Minister went the man who had cast 25 vetoes at the U.N. Security Council...