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...Guns. By last week, hard-driving President Anthony had some of the answers. He was hard at work to pull Colt out of its queer hole, if anyone could. Gunman Anthony, born in Shelby, N.C., graduated from North Carolina State College into a job in a machine shop. By the black days of 1932 he was president of Veeder-Root, Inc. (mechanical counting devices) in Hartford, Conn. Veeder-Root was on the downgrade, as were so many firms, and losing money. Anthony managed to stop the skid and make Veeder-Root profitable. He is still board chairman. His strategy...
When the police finally nabbed them, Agata shielded Arturo with her own body to give him time to pull a gun. Instead, Arturo surrendered. Agata spat, "You coward!" and slapped...
Going into the last half of the ninth trailing by five runs, the Crimson men promptly loaded the bases. Hugo Francke, pinch-hitting for Sid Greeley, then struck out. Finally two runs were scored, but they were not enough to pull the game out of the fire...
...probably would not come until Allied troops crossed the Channel. But Russia, ready to start a new drive which presumably will be geared with the invasion, joined the U.S. and Britain in one more stern warning to Germany's collaborators. Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland were told to pull out immediately, or share in the full disaster of Axis defeat...
...avert a postwar depression, ex-Businessman Bowles proposed that wartime controls be replaced by a "broad and far-reaching" program to: 1) put a floor under wages and prices-in effect, a combined OPA and WLB in reverse; 2) remove any ceiling on public works. For the long pull he joined Alvin Hansen, Beardsley Ruml et al in proposing that Government shall keep the U.S. economy in balance by lowering taxes and increasing expenditures in slumps, upping taxes and reducing expenditures in booms. He declared flatly that government must always play the "central role" in the economy...