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...Railroads are the big exception to the profits drop. Long the most overtaxed U.S. business, railroaders are now protected from the excess-profits levies by the very rail & ballast that has kept their profits down for years. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe-longest U.S. railroad-earned $16,775,000 in the five months ended last May, more than three times a year ago; Atlantic Coast Line netted $8,938,000 in the same five months, almost double 1941; Union Pacific boosted profits from...
...After the longest-drawn-out casting to-do since Gone With the Wind, the juicy role of Maria in the forthcoming cine-version of For Whom the Bell Tolls went to dancing Musicomedienne Vera Zorina (born Eva Brigitta Hartwig). "Her hair . . . was but little longer than the fur on a beaver pelt," wrote Ernest Hemingway of his heroine, so off came the dancer's ash-blonde glory...
...Making the Mackinac" (pronounced mackinaw) is the dream of every inland yachtsman. Not only is it the world's longest fresh-water race (331 miles as the duck paddles), but according to old salts it is no less hazardous than the longer, more spectacular ocean races. In 35 thrashes to Mackinac since 1904, no lives have been lost, but enough boats have been disabled to give the affair a fearsome reputation. One year only eight of 42 starters reached the finish line. Often the winning boat takes nearly four days. Once an all-female crew took two weeks...
...that to John"), but he has a lot to think about. Before the great fire in 1871, he had a newsstand at Madison and Dearborn. Soon he had enough money to open a saloon near the Business Man's Exchange, south of Van Buren street-it had "the longest bar in the world." For a nickel The Hink sold schooners as big as buckets to bums, roustabouts, prostitutes. They could always put the bite on him for two bits; he let the bums sleep in the back room. Once in a while he would go back to touch them...
...Normal. As the nation which has been the longest at war, China exhibits to the sharpest degree the growing worldwide tendency to take war as a normal course of life...