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...found one in Salida, Colo. (pop. 5,065): managing a granite works (tombstones) for his chain-druggist friend, Charles Rudolph Walgreen. Four years and two trials later W. B. went to Leavenworth to serve a 15-year rap for mail fraud. But his Salida friends didn't forget him. They signed petitions, fought for his release. In 1937 Franklin Roosevelt commuted his sentence. This time W. B. didn't have to hunt a job. Salidans had one waiting...
...decision next day was a rap on the knuckles for Germany. The freighter captains agreed that they had not been halted or searched. Mexico called that incident officially closed, then decided the first one was just an unfortunate mistake by the Nazi seamen, closed it too. To the U. S. Navy all this diplomatic maneuvering was a lot of nonsense. Growled one sea dog: "What the hell do we have a neutrality patrol...
...Andrew Cunningham, whose recent exploits have been strong tonic to Prime Minister Churchill and the entire nation. The Dakar fiasco, after which Mr. Churchill mentioned "accidents and some errors . . . disciplinary action," afforded excuse for a high command shakeup and it was wholly probable that Sir Charles Forbes took the rap for his underlings...
...renters got the benefit of this trend. Only tangible growth in city vacancies (hence lower rents) was in the upper brackets-houses and apartments renting for $45 or $50 a month and more. In much-moving Manhattan, renters in that bracket found reductions averaging 2½ to 5%. Biggest rap was taken by swank East Side apartments (seven rooms or over), where realtors found tenants beginning to economize by taking smaller units. Landlords, leery of giving tenants any weapon which might be used to beat down rents, did not talk, but last week the U. S. Census Bureau...
...obstacle to new plant was detected and removed. The obstacle: the long memories of manufacturers and investors, reluctant to put money into new plant that may be as useless five or six years hence as the Hog Island Shipyard was in 1923. The U. S. Treasury took the rap for Hog Island. Why should the stockholders of Packard Motor Car Co., for example, take the rap for $30,000,000 of new equipment which, after building enough Rolls-Royce plane engines to beat Hitler, might find its market destroyed by peace...