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...Herzfeld's father, Karl, who built up the 48-year-old Boston Store, often over the strenuous protests of conservative old Julius Simon, the founder, who thought the store should sell only low-priced goods. Karl gave Milwaukee's thrifty burghers the widest possible assortment to choose from. Once, when Karl bought a stock of fine woolens to sell at the then unheard-of price of $15 a yard, Simon swept the goods off the counter, crying: "Do you want to ruin this store?" Later Herzfeld and his two partners, Richard Phillipson and Nat Stone, took over...
Privileged Minority. On the other hand, the Nizam spends some of his fortune for the public good. He gave $500,000 toward the building of Osmania University. Hyderabad City has the widest, cleanest streets in India, more and better looking hospitals than any other Indian city, a school for the deaf and blind, housing projects for the poor...
...investigated at length by Congress. Before the Tribune twisted them, the facts were these: last January Congress had approved the Smith-Mundt bill, which set up a bureau to run the Voice of America and otherwise see that the U.S. story is told abroad. The bill called for the widest use of private agencies in telling that story. The free, nongovernmental press, said Congressmen who toured Europe last summer, was the best weapon against Russia's propaganda...
Rather undescriptively nicknamed "the Broomstick," the new turbine is a contraption 17 inches wide at its widest and 5 feet long. It delivers 160 h.p. but weighs only 250 Ibs. An equivalent piston engine weighs about...
Before the conference policy committee, the U.S. delegation introduced a resolution providing that 1) everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought and expression, 2) newsmen shall have the "widest possible access to sources of information" and be permitted to transmit copy without "discriminatory limitations" and 3) governments shall make "a diversity of news and opinion available to the people...