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...accompaniment on foot and on roller skates. And the songs are enough to make even Tin Pan Alley blush: / Could Have Danced All Night comes out: "Electra too, with colors new and thrilling-the richest fabrics you can see ..." The sell is so hard that it gongs like boiler plate. But it gets results. Salesmen and their quarry pack the house...
...Stone pushed his 101 performers (including George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack) through the paces of disaster. A grand piano plunged into the ship's chapel through a 12-ft. hole in the deck of the grand salon; Actress Dorothy Malone was trapped between sheets of boiler plate in a cabin awash with icy brine. Explosions were set off in the engine room, where a half acre of paintwork unexpectedly ignited and 30-ft. flames threatened all hands...
After World War II, Blacksmith Henrique Pedro de Sanson expanded his Rio shop to make boiler tanks. In 1950 he went into oil-storage tanks, in 1956 into specialized truck bodies-dump trucks, asphalt spreaders, tank trailers. "Business has increased 300% to 400% every year since I started," says Millionaire Sanson. Along with 39,892 other businesses (quadrupled since 1946), San-son's enterprise is riding a boom that has kited Brazil's gross national product up 63% in the past ten years, has boosted the per capita G.N.P. 29%-allowing for a population explosion from...
Cause of the fire was a defective shutoff valve in the oil burner which failed to function, causing the overflowing oil to ignite in the pit. Deputy Fire Chief Vincent Galvin declared, "It could have been a dangerous situation if it got out of the boiler room...
...support from unions or industry. Steelworkers Union Chief David McDonald opposed the bill because he felt it would have "a stifling effect on free collective bargaining." Freezing prices to halt inflation, said U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, is "like trying to check the rising pressure in a steam boiler by plugging up the safety valve." The real cause of rising industrial prices since the war, charged Blough, is rising employment costs, which now "represent more than 75% of all costs." Furthermore, said Blough, the O'Mahoney bill would "diminish still further the profit incentive," could lead...