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Alcorn's selection caused some growling among right-wing Republicans ("The conservative wing," groused Michigan's stone-age Representative Clare Hoffman, "has been liquidated and is about to be buried"), but even these yowls seemed almost perfunctory. Serious, intense Meade Alcorn, who neither drinks nor smokes, has little...
As any goggle-eyed New Yorker could guess from reading the biggest and blackest headlines, the "Mad Bomber" had struck. His calling card: a crude but workable bomb made of gunpowder, set to be detonated by a cheap watch movement wired to a flashlight battery-all contained in a short...
Shortage for Europe? At the Commission hearings, big exporters argued that shipments to oil-short Europe were already being restricted. Humble Oil, subsidiary of Jersey Standard and the biggest producer and oil-buyer in Texas, testified that it could supply only 165,500 bbls. of a 300,000 bbl. order...
Death March. Draftee Sidney Stewart was fresh from the States and stationed in Manila when the Japs started bombing the Philippines. So civilian-minded were his fellow soldiers that they mustered for departure to the front lines in oxfords rather than combat boots. So garrison-minded were their commanders that...
Few builders-and fewer economists -look for much improvement from the new FHA rates. "The FHA move is a drop in the bucket," wired Levittown Builder William Levitt to President Eisenhower, adding politely, "but when your bucket is dry, even a drop tastes good." Low-interest VA and FHA mortgages...