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Customers for big-league ball clubs do not grow on trees. But scarcely had the ink dried on the Nugents' check (guestimate: $39,000) when a half-dozen syndicates were scrambling for the Philly franchise. After several days Manhattan Socialite William Drought Cox, 33-year-old lumber broker who lost a reported $40,000 in the defunct New York Yankee professional football team, chirped up: "I'm the lucky...
Trouble on the Hill. Morgenthau's most ignominious tussles have taken place on Capitol Hill. Like any gentleman farmer turned Treasury Secretary, he shuddered to face Congressional committees alone, hesitated to express positive opinions. With him, on his visits to Capitol Hill, went a half-dozen Treasury experts, not always enough to keep him out of hot water...
...then pick up more words by talking to natives. Smith's records are accompanied by booklets so that record-listeners see what they hear. In the field, special service officers hold language lessons for groups of from 10 to 20 men, who hear each set of records a half-dozen times and repeat the alien phrases aloud...
...June to attend the formal graduation exercises, since so many of them will not be here for the ceremonies that would normally be held by their class, Harvey said. However, limitations of space have made it necessary to restrict the dance to the Class of 1943 and the half-dozen Juniors who will be graduating next month...
...preparing to assure Alaskan supplies by constructing a 1,440-mile railroad from mid-British Columbia to Fairbanks, perhaps to Nome. Since last spring the route has been quietly surveyed under U.S. Engineer Colonel Peter Goerz. A Seattle steel company has bought up the rails from a half-dozen defunct railroads. Washington has discussed the route with Ottawa, and has considered buying a decrepit, 350-mile Canadian railway (between Vancouver and Prince George-although it does not quite reach either) which would fit into the new route...