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...enthusiasts to go to Finland. These tourists comprise all nationalities, including Poles, White Russians and Czechs exiled from their habitual vast skiing grounds. The Finnish Tourist Agency, which still remains open in centrally located offices on the Avenue de l'Opéra, reports it is doing a brisk business, with steadily rising interest in Finnish tourist resorts. Reports that volunteers are leaving here for Finland are emphatically denied...
...fill the Walter O'Keefe half-hour, and give battle to Pot o' Gold as well, CBS on Dec. 19 raked up a radio program called Court of Missing Heirs, which had a brisk radio career two years ago in the Midwest, tracing heirs to unclaimed fortunes. Pecking away at a guesstimated pile of $160,000,000 in unclaimed estates in the U. S., Court of Missing Heirs so far this season has told the world about $350,000 awaiting long-lost brothers, errant sons, all manner of scattered kith & siblings...
Last week Portland's afternoon quiet was abruptly shattered. From Dr. Paul J. Raver, the brisk administrator of Bonneville Dam, came the biggest news the Northwest has had in many a noontime. Aluminum Co. of America had contracted to build a $3,000,000 plant on the Columbia River eight miles from Portland and two miles west of Vancouver, Wash., use 32,500 kilowatts of Bonneville power (to be transmitted over aluminum cables...
...Ballroom, had made $60,000. Slim, trim, gently mustached, he is a darling of the jitterbug trade, has over 2,000,000 regular listeners a week, makes $20,000 a year extra for personal appearances, at $300 per. The Make-Believe Ballroom idea has spread to other cities, offers brisk competition to network stations wherever it exists...
...start. Last week, in a paneled room off Independence Square, the directors of Curtis sat down before President Fuller to consider the Plan again. All, including brisk, slender Mary Curtis Bok and her ruddy-cheeked son, Gary Bok, agreed they wanted no Plan that might precipitate a stockholders' scrap. Curtis bankers sat down to figure out another Plan, were rumored to be planning sacrifices for the common holders to make up for the wounds that the preferred is bound to have to take...