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...Watson, oratorical, jowl-shaking Republican Senator for 17 years before 1933, was back home in Indiana for his 80th birthday, greeted the press with: "Sit down and I'll tell you 100 lies in 50 minutes." He is positively "not a candidate for office . . . just an old, broken-down number out on the scrap heap with no ambition except to help my party...
Sale in Shortages. When workers ran short of alarm clocks and washing machines, Albina bought up 800 old clocks, sent as far as St. Louis for a broken-down washing machine, fixed them up and sold them at cost. Other dodges: 800 lilies were sold to workers at cost at Easter; the less pious can buy at any time special Varga-type-girl calendars. An Albina soil expert counsels 1,000 Victory gardeners. Haircut absenteeism was cut by persuading nearby barbers to sloganize "An Albina Man Is Always Next." Albina's own cobbler gives three-day service v. three...
Negligent newspaper reporters assumed that anyone who could afford that kind of money for a broken-down fiddle was a known man. They were wrong. The city-room files were bare of Julius Klorfein's name. At his penthouse apartment he apologized for this unfortunate anonymity: "I've just spent my life working hard and building up my cigar business, and I guess I didn't have any time to get in Who's Who or What's What or anything like that...
Corporación now flies three broken-down Italian Macchi seaplanes over 850 route miles. But it has dreams of much bigger things, is dickering for more equipment and a route to Rio. Meantime the arrival of a Spanish mission in Buenos Aires started the jolting rumor that Corporacion is the hub of a new transatlantic airline from Argentina to Europe-and Berlin. Thus, Corporación packs political dynamite aplenty...
...Materials can smash price ceilings right & left. Thus hard-to-get scrap which regular junkmen have bypassed for months (because it was out of reach under OPA's ceilings) will be easy pickings for Jesse Jones. First on War Materials' fight card are obsolete buildings, rusty bridges, broken-down machinery...