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Pilot Hamm headed for the clearest space he could find, brushed through a grove of trees on the way. The DC-3 burst into pieces at the crash. Somehow, the stewardess and 18 passengers escaped with their lives. But Pilot Hamm and his copilot, Harmon E. Ring, had made their last flight...
John R. Junkin, a sand & gravel dealer from Natchez, told the committee he had poured the concrete for the Dream House swimming pool, but had marked the $1,194.70 bill paid before he mailed it. Contractor M. T. Reed had contributed $3,500 to the Juniper Grove Baptist parsonage Bilbo was struggling to build, and had given the money to Bilbo. Contractor F. T. Newton had no idea what Bilbo had done with the $25,000 he had given him to back the unsuccessful 1942 senatorial campaign of handsome, languorous Mississippian Wall Doxey, now the Senate sergeant at arms...
...charge that really outraged The Man was the one that he had deposited money collected for the Juniper Grove parsonage in a special fund from which he alone could draw. "Gentlemen of the committee," said he, bitterly, "that was a sacred fund and I want you and the world to know that if I ever forget the teachings of my sainted father and want to get money wrongfully I would never start by stealing from the church...
...months, hotelmen had been quietly tilting for control of Los Angeles' luxurious Ambassador Hotel, whose 500 rooms, famed Cocoanut Grove, swimming pool and golf course have long been run by a bondholders' trust. Conrad Hilton, owner of Chicago's Stevens ("world's largest") and twelve other hotels, thought he had the inside track. Hilton started dickering last year, first offered $22 apiece for a controlling quantity of the 58,200 trust certificates issued after the hotel went bankrupt in 1935, gradually raised this to $44, with no takers...
...does every week, small businessman Jim Mulder of Lemon Grove, Calif. tucked his paid bills, sales slips and the salary record of his one employe into an envelope and dropped it into a mailbox. The envelope, and all Jim Mulder's bookkeeping worries, went to "Mail-Me-Monday." By last week, some 3,000 small businessmen in 58 U.S. and Canadian cities were doing the same thing...