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...burgeoning prosperity-the gift of the cocoa plant, which grows more than 20 feet tall in the dark, rain-drenched forests. Last year the Gold Coast's plantations, all owned by Africans, grew a third of the world's cocoa. And with prices at $10 a load (60 lbs.), the growers are crowding their mud huts with radios, sewing machines, bicycles and even TV sets (though there is no TV station to tune...
...Load of Furs. Gangster Francis Smith (who was hustled down under guard from Green Haven Prison, where he is doing seven-to-ten years for highjacking) matter-of-factly admitted doing a lot of shooting himself back in the 1930s. He told of having set himself up as a pier boss after ending a hitch in prison. It was easy. With three other hoodlums, he "decided to take a pier ... off two brothers by the name of Dillon, which we did. It was the Italian Line, Pier 59, North River. They went off without any trouble. They knew what would...
...Smith & Co. were soon involved in an uproar that kept the waterfront echoing like a shooting gallery. "One morning, myself, George Keeler and John Harvey and Thomas Porter were cruising up the waterfront. We spied a truck that was loaded with furs. Keeler wanted to go and speak to the driver there. 'He must have something good there, and I can get him to give it to us.' . . . He comes back and he says, 'There's a load of furs worth $100,000 . . . and he's going to give us the truck.' [But] while...
...themselves astounded, and then set desperately to work to get the fish to the Queen before it spoiled. Moore waited in agony while an overdue train from Grimsby crept toward him through the fog. A crew of cold-storage experts stood by to repack the sturgeon in a new load of ice on Moore's truck. When all was set, Moore's general manager nipped off through the fog with the precious burden to London, 125 miles away. Meanwhile, in Grimsby, Fishmonger Cleve fretted for fear Moore was stealing the show. "The acceptance was to me," he insisted...
...Clothesline. For housewives plagued by sagging clotheslines, Louisville's Puritan Cordage Mills began national sale of a line which stays taut. Made of cotton braided over a Fiberglas core, it does not stretch appreciably even under the weight of a full load of wet clothes. Price: 89? per 50-ft. length...