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...business largely on a cash basis, selling the wood from his forests to Belgian mines for cash and paying cash in turn for the services of neighboring fire departments when trouble struck. Like all independent border states, Bolle's realm was a hotbed of smuggling, and a seized load of contraband often came in handy to balance the books. "Not infrequently," says Bolle, "we confiscated whole truckloads of coffee. We would then sell it and put the proceeds into the budget...
...Coraggio was the type of ship which confronts a pilot with the toughest problems and dangers of all. She was built to carry the biggest load that could squeeze through the ditch. Her twin screws churn up mud within inches of the bottom, tend to make the big ship yaw from side to side. Besides, she was heading south full of highly volatile free gases left (because of an evaporator breakdown) from her last load of crude. A single bump, a single spark, could explode the gas in an instant mass of flame. Skipper Aniello Coppola stuck close...
...British aircraft carrier stood at the ready, and a supply fleet of 130,000 tons waited off Southampton to load equipment for the Middle East. Britain's Anthony Eden seemed confronted with the choice of making good on his assiduous saber-rattling or accepting a humiliating backdown. "Will there be war over Suez?" was the question on British minds last week as the Prime Minister stepped to the dispatch box in the House of Commons and faced an aroused Labor Party, vociferously vowing to pluck him bodily from the brink...
...companies increase their civic work, the heaviest load inevitably falls on the president himself. Just as he has the know-how, energy and contacts to make his business succeed, so is he invaluable to civic projects. Republic Steel's President Thomas F. Patton, Detroit Edison's President Walker L. Cisler, Chairman Laurence Whittemore of New England papermaker Brown Co., give anywhere from 10% to 30% of their time to civic projects. In Los Angeles, Hardwareman-Banker Vic Carter was so busy that he either had to cut down his civic activities or his business. His choice: to sell...
...those who have always done it-for a willing worker is in high demand. They also point out that there are still too many "letter-headers," businessmen who merely lend their names to a civic campaign without also lending their time. Recently, however, more young men are sharing the load. Both they and their companies realize that it will give them invaluable experience; they will meet the top men in their fields, learn to talk and think on their feet. When Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Vice President George M. Dean, whose special baby is Seattle's United Good Neighbor fund...