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Type No. 1 in his collection is a Franklin stove. Type No. 2 is the same with a covered front ("The girls," said Hobe, "got precious and wanted fancy doors on their stoves"). Type No. 3 is the box stove sometimes known as the "chunk," forerunner of the kitchen range...
Back from Cuba in 1932, he wound up as head of a Sperry subsidiary which owned a big chunk of China National Aviation Corp., an airline running between Hong Kong and Shanghai. Go-Getter Pawley went to China to see why C.N.A.C. was not coining money. The reasons are not on the record, but he finally sold out to Pan Am again. By that time Bill Pawley had made pals of China's bankers T. V. Soong and Dr. H. H. Kung-not to mention Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Soon he convinced them that China needed its own airplane factory...
Eight months ago Farmer Wickard, the producer in favor of production, supported the stand of the grasping Congressional farm bloc. Results: 1) The price control bill assured farmers a hefty chunk of money by prohibiting ceiling prices on farm products until the market price reached 110% of the 1909-14 purchasing power; 2) the bill gave Farmer Wickard veto power over any food price OPAdministrator Leon Henderson might...
Even though Cuba is rolling in sugar money, the Good Neighbor Policy goes on pouring U.S. Government funds into Havana. Cuban diplomats are now dickering for the first chunk of a $25,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan granted over a year ago. Eventually Cuba will take up the whole loan, spend the cash for highways, port facilities, sanitation works. Predicted the newspaper Alerta: "A river of money will flow through Cuba...
...chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen...