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...company, founded only a year be fore by veteran Builder Frank McGraw -who had $17 million in contracts the day he opened his office - soon ran out of work in the depression. By 1932, says Strike, "the firm was whittled down to a half-dozen of us." But Frank McGraw had confidence in young Cliff Strike, let him run most of the construction jobs himself when business picked up again. Strike, in turn, gave his top supervisors a free hand and everything they asked for in the way of men and equipment. ("Even if you want a baby grand piano...
...Every day for the past two weeks it has been the same," said a checkout girl in a Detroit A & J supermarket. "I just get the prices fixed in my mind when the manager comes up with another half-dozen raises. Eggs are down two cents today-that I can remember...
Harvard has newspaper "stringers" too. About a half-dozen students hold the jobs; they are hired by city editors in Boston and New York; no Harvard officer holds power over them. They report rapes, riots and suicides as well as speeches and handouts...
Washington estimates that Russia has anywhere from five to 60 atom bombs; a favorite guess is 20-25. (Estimates about the U.S. atom bomb stockpile run from several hundred to "a small four figures.") It is certain that Russia's uranium ores are low-grade. A half-dozen or so deposits were discovered in 1944 in the Tashkent area of central Asia. The other main Soviet uranium source is northeast of Lake Baikal, in Siberia...
Fifth Ave. at 59th Street. The Carnaval Room features dinner and supper dance music by sundry gypsies and Lester Lanin. Drop down a couple of blocks to 152 E. 55th Street, if you prefer, and be amused by a half-dozen entertainers while you cup at the Blue Angel. Le Huban Bleu 4 E. 56th, features no less then ten nightclub artists to distract you during supper. Le Coq Rouge, just down the block from Le Ruban at 65 E. 56th, supplies Phil D'Arey's trio and Eddie Davis's orchestra. There is dancing here, very hard while...