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Heatter writes his newscasts himself, broadcasts them either from his penthouse in Manhattan or his home in Freeport, L. I. He used to practice broadcasting with his son Basil ten years ago. Using a frying pan as a mike, he put on mock shows that got Basil so worked up that the boy resolved to become a radio writer. Now 22, Basil has written for We, the People, Hobby Lobby, has done radio shows for Joe E. Brown and Diana Barrymore. This week CBS's Columbia Workshop will produce his Cassidy and the Devil...
...Goodrich built plants to make synthetic rubber (which is no trick) and to make it cheaply and in tonnage (which is). Meanwhile, among hundreds of unsung corporate pioneers, Champion Paper & Fibre made newsprint from Southern pine, and Dow Chemical extracted magnesium from the sea water that laps Freeport, Tex. What may yet prove the year's most useful discovery was less romantic: at South Bend, Studebaker was testing out a turret-lathe that could turn one shell a minute...
...powers wanted Roosevelt beaten. Lehman himself was fanning a war hysteria, said Holt, in order to swell the dividends of Lehman Corp., of which his cousin is president, and which, said Holt, holds shares in Bendix Aviation, Vultee, Stinson and Lockheed Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Dow Chemical, New York Shipbuilding, Freeport Sulphur, and Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown and U. S. Steel...
...Freeport Sulphur (which reported a net of $2,200,762, up 46.8% from 1938) owns 90% of Cuban-American Manganese Corp. The discoverer of Cuban manganese was a Rough Rider, John Campbell Greenway, later a famed Arizona rancher and copper tycoon who married a schoolmate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian...
...onetime captain and quarterback of Michigan's famed 1905 point-a-minute team, husky, greying Frederick Stephenson Norcross Jr., a notable mining engineer, saw the possibilities when Goodrich sent him to Cuba to look for minerals. Prospector Norcross reported manganese was the best bet. Dave Goodrich got Freeport to put up $1,620,000 for development and joined Freeport's board. Norcross did the rest...