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...made a startling discovery: 627 contracts for May deliveries, some 27 million lbs. of potatoes, had been defaulted. The exchange set a price of $4.45 per 100 lbs., made the traders pay $1,185,000 for the potatoes they had not delivered, and assessed a $186,000 penalty to boot. Last week the exchange and the U.S. Agriculture Department's Commodity Exchange Authority started investigating the defaults to find out whether speculators had tried to manipulate the market with false sales or whether they had been caught by a legitimate shortage...
Probable Baritone. When World War I threatened, Biddle set up camp on a family estate and trained 40,000 men for U.S. fighting forces. One young marine boot named Gene Tunney took his first boxing lessons from Biddle. Later, the athletic Christian circled the world to find more punishing combat tricks to teach marine and FBI recruits. He also found time to write a dozen books ("in a rather half-nelson style," says his daughter) and give annual recitals at Philadelphia's august Academy of Music. ("Mr. Biddle is a baritone, I think," said one critic...
Even in the chronically depressed southern half of Italy's boot, businessmen are pouring capital into new plants, offices and stores. Last week Olivetti (office machines) opened an adding-machine plant (capacity: 50,000 machines a year) just south of Naples, with free clinics and nurseries for its workers' use. Five other big firms have traveled south in the past year. The results are striking. In 1954 electricity consumption in the Italian south was up by 43.5%, radio sales by 15.5%, car sales by 42.6%, tractors by 35.6%. Said Italy's Banca Commerciale in its annual report...
...have spent the past ten years cramming democracy down the throats of the Japanese with a G.I. boot, and have succeeded so well that they have mustered a 75.8% vote in the recent election. We should invite a Japanese democratization commission to the U.S. to teach us how we can boost our turnout from the puny 63% we mustered in the 1952 election...
...years, he was doing fine. First the gravel driveway at his small bungalow was blacktopped, then a curb was added-and then the whole thing was refinished in crushed brick. On the driveway, instead of a Buick there appeared a Cadillac, then a second one-with chauffeur to boot. Three years ago Commodity Speculator Butler bought himself a $300.000 house, added a swimming pool with cabanas; he bought a $150,000 yacht, used it as an office...