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...bogey man flickered until last week through the shuttered bordellos of Havana, the rich red valleys of inland Cuba, the old Spanish fortresses of the coast. He had guns and money and followers, among them a plump, blonde, temperish Cuban-Irish trollop named Ziomara O'Halloran. He was wanted badly by Army Chief of Staff Batista, with whom he had a deadly personal feud. For the record, however, Batista wanted him for three crimes: 1) the shooting of a treacherous colleague, 2) the kidnapping of a rich Cuban idler for the fabulous ransom of $300,000, and 3) engineering...
...Arrested in Kobe was Mark A. Pierce, a substantial citizen of Los Angeles and onetime police commissioner, on a holiday in Japan. As his tourist ship was sailing through the Inland Sea, a detective had seen him taking photographs, which when developed showed a passing warship. He was severely questioned ten hours a day for eleven days, taken to a hotel at night. Japanese police thought they had hit on something real when they found in Pierce's baggage a scroll showing that Mark Pierce is entitled to be called "Colonel" in the State of Kentucky. Other suspicious facts...
...miles; that more meteors strike the earth's atmosphere than was formerly suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live on 50 kinds of moss; that Antarctica is all one continent, as large as the U. S., Mexico and part of Canada combined...
Unlike its old rival at No. 23 Wall, Kuhn, Loeb elected to stay in the securities trade, abandoning its deposits. Traditionally railroad bankers, Kuhn, Loeb has lately widened its industrial friendships, particularly in the steel industry. Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube have long been clients, and last year the firm assisted President Tom Mercer Girdler with his Republic Steel merger plans. Last week Kuhn, Loeb was preparing to market $50,000,000 of bonds for Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel-a big industrial issue even in Kuhn, Loeb's long records...
Arriving at Matanuska Valley, 125 mi. inland from Seward, each transplanted family will get a 40-acre tract, a log cabin, livestock and farm equipment. They will have 30 years to pay the Government $3,000, with 3% interest, the first payment due in four years. The cabins will have built-in furniture, running water. A physician, dentist and Red Cross nurse will be in attendance. Warmed by 20 hr. per day of summer sunlight and wet by heavy rains, Matanuska loam yields whopping crops. The Japanese Current keeps winter temperatures well above those of northern Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin...