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...goods dealer, told him the jewels were hot. After an hour the fence called back. Following his direction, Durant led MPs to a dime-in-the-slot locker in Chicago's Illinois Central Station, pulled out a cheap, pasteboard letter box and Opened it. There was a dazzling pile, gathered from all the ruling houses of Europe...
Andrei Gromyko, who has been penned up in the Plaza on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, got hold of a country place on the plushy north shore of Long Island.* The main diggings (in old Woodbury): a Georgian brick pile with a nice third floor for servants, a five-car garage, landscaped grounds. Neighbors: Wall Streeter Henry Rogers Winthrop and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Landlady: Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, widow of the ex-Secretary of the Treasury...
...sandlotters who might do almost as well as Pittsburgh's seventh-place regulars. The visiting Giants warmed up on the field, while 36 unionized Pirates locked themselves in the dressing room for two hours to argue and take a vote. Outside, newspapermen stood on ladders and a pile of trunks peering in through a high window; Organizer Murphy, also excluded, paced nervously up & down...
Before the uranium pile was developed for atom bombs, artificial isotopes were made by cyclotrons, and were enormously expensive. The pile produces them much more cheaply, for any substance exposed to the hurricane of neutrons which rages inside the pile quickly becomes radioactive. They are still expensive by ordinary standards, but their cost should fall rapidly. Production at Oak Ridge will be supervised by practical Monsanto Chemical...
...curve in London's Thames Embankment, midway between the Houses of Parliament and the Tower, stands a massive granite pile, boldly convex. Its 16 grey Ionic columns give an impression of opulent security worthy of a king's exchequer. This is Unilever House. In front stands a statue of Queen Victoria, symbol of Empire. The juxtaposition is apt. For Unilever House is an empire within the Empire, the greatest industrial realm in the British world...