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...Grenadier Guards, in which Mutesa is an honorary captain) and drove off in his black limousine. He and Governor Cohen talked for two hours. The interview was not a success. Out stalked the governor; in strode a British policeman with a warrant for the King's arrest. Forthwith, His Highness got orders to clear out of his native Uganda and to stay out for the rest of his life. He was hustled to Entebbe airport, bundled aboard a waiting R.A.F. transport plane and flown directly to London. No one bothered to tell his wife and four-year-old child...
...Search for an Ear. Now Nashville burned to know what he had done with his life. Only a shred of information leaked out from the insurance company: Buntin was living in Texas, probably in a citrus-growing area, under an assumed name. The Nashville Tennessean forthwith started one of the oddest chases of all time: it sent a young reporter named John Seigenthaler to the biggest state in the union to look for a thin man with a protruding left...
...French aviator to name the best aircraft engine of the day. "They are all bad!" the Frenchman cried. Sikorsky modified the question. "Which is the least bad?" The Frenchman meditated and answered: "The one with the smallest number of parts, for the parts are all bad, too." Sikorsky forthwith bought a 25-h.p., three-cylinder Anzani engine, took it back to Kiev, and began building a flying machine himself in his father's backyard summerhouse. It was a rude helicopter. It snorted, flapped, and vibrated, but stayed stubbornly on the ground. To Sikorsky's delight, however, it lifted...
...Procter forthwith cut down on outside middlemen, and by setting up a network of P. & G.'s own distributors, flattened out the peaks and valleys. In 1923 P. & G. installed its guaranteed-employment plan, first of its kind in the U.S., and assured hourly workers 48 weeks' employment a year. In those days, such advanced management methods were nothing short of revolutionary. Today, they are considered a normal part of labor relations at P. & G. They have cut employee turnover from 133.7% to less than 1% a year, kept the company unhampered by outside unions and major strikes...
Twenty-eight months of Mossadegh had left Iran a mendicant, left its finances $544 million in the hole, inflated its prices perilously, and set the country running into debt at the rate of $5,000,000 monthly. Iran needs $200 million in the next two years, $10 million forthwith...