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Charles F. Kettering, inventor and General Motors research chief, reached 70 in Loudonville, Ohio. The town's population (2,300) doubled with visitors, who saw a pageant, sang Happy Birthday, watched Kettering cut an 80-lb. cake. His message: "A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance...
Big, quiet George L. Russell Jr., current up-from-the-ranks president, foresees some trying days ahead. The price of fur, the principal raw material, has almost doubled since the war began. To pay for and operate Mallory, Stetson has to borrow $2,500,000. Nevertheless, convinced that many of...
The winner would face problems that could hardly be handled from an easy chair. Chile had become the international Thin Man. The cost of living had doubled since 1939. A dozen eggs cost 60?, an ordinary shirt $6 and the average worker earning about $1 a day was out of...
Details of the deal were simple. Along with three other top managers of National Theaters (Elmer C. Rhoden, Harold J. Fitzgerald, F. H. Ricketson, Jr.), Skouras was allowed in 1944 to buy a fair-sized interest ($565,000) in the company as "incentive." The incentive worked well for all concerned...
Americans Present. They shared the Festspielhaus' 1,600 seats with U.S. officers and their families, for whom nearly one-third of the tickets were reserved, and some of the queer fish who have doubled Salzburg's population since V-E day. Salzburg has become an ideal hideout for...