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...Newark, a strike by the Retail Clerks International Protective Association, A.F. of L., resulted in the closing of 242 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. stores throughout northern New Jersey and Staten Island...
Flying down from New Bedford, Mass., Lieut. Colonel William Franklin Smith Jr., D.F.C., Air Medal and Croix de Guerre, found LaGuardia Field all right. After he had let his two engined B-25 bomber down under a 900-ft. ceiling he radioed for permission to go on to Newark. LaGuardia approved, warned him of low visibility (about two miles), concluded, "We're unable to see the top of the Em pire State Building...
...eight years since he started climbing up the Yankee chain, Tommy Holmes had worked hard to reach his present peak. As a pesky wrist-hitter, who specialized in poking the ball to left field (mostly singles), he had a five-year average of .329 with Norfolk, Binghamton and Newark. Then the Yankees sold him to Boston. There he learned to pull the ball, spent hours trying to hit a roll of tarpaulin along the right field foul line. When the right-field fence at Braves Field was shortened, he learned to, swing for distance...
...David Baird, New York insurance man, and Maxwell M. Bilofsky, Newark manufacturer, member of the National Republican Club of New York, who owns a $30,000 aluminum Rolls Royce. Baird invested some $70,000, got some $30,000 back. Bilofsky (through his good friend Baird) invested some $50,000, recovered...
Having played out this sorry and expensive farce in Newark, the federal antitrust attorneys now have the facts about plastics. Their probable next step will be to start a civil suit. A typical upshot would then be an amicable consent decree, with the defendants promising to discontinue certain pricing practices that appear unjustified...