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...spread to small Blairsville (pop. 5,002), bought up the only industry in town-it was shut down -got the Navy to equip the plant, and began to turn out heavy-caliber shells. He kept on scouting U.S. industry for more bargains, bought the Quimby Pump Co., whose Newark and New Brunswick (N.J.) plants had a sizable backlog of Navy and Maritime Commission orders. To get further diversification he set up a new division of the Porter Co. and plunged into the gas & oil business. Although still on an experimental basis, he grossed a tidy $250,000 last year from...
Died. Louis Bamberger, 88, Newark's philanthropic department storekeeper, in South Orange, N.J. When the small, self-made millionaire sold out to Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. in 1929 his store's annual sales had reached $40,000,000, his farewell gifts to 235 veteran employes totaled more than $1,000,000. In 1930 Bachelor Bamberger (and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld) gave Educator Abraham Flexner $5,000,000 to found Princeton's famed Institute For Advanced Study...
Robert Elliott Burns (I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang) lost a plea for a Georgia pardon. Now a Newark, N.J. tax consultant, U.S. Fugitive No. 1 had the backing of Georgia's Governor Ellis G. Arnall, but the best the pardon board would offer was: "If and when the escapee surrenders . . . the board . . . will be happy to investigate...
...Shortages. Tops on the list of things that most shoppers cannot get are dependable toys. Cracked a Newark merchant, of the wood and cardboard substitutes for metal trains, wagons and toys: "They won't last until Christmas . . . and probably not long after Christmas either." Also missing from most counters: pajamas, children's clothes, cribs, playpens and even rattles, watches, and-above all -good whiskeys. When a Washington D.C. liquor store advertised that it actually had 8,000 bottles of real rye, bourbon and Scotch for sale, a mob that made a football crowd seem tame waited outside through...
...work stoppage" was contrary to labor's no-strike pledge. While all four papers hurriedly sponsored news broadcasts, the War Labor Board ordered printers back to work. To bosses of the union, which had had similar disputes recently in Newark and Salt Lake City, WLB sent a demand for explanations...