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...steel shortage. The Journal's biggest local staff (about 90 newsmen) is still in Manhattan, but some 160 staffers work out of bureaus in 17 other U.S. and Canadian cities, bringing the Journal a lot closer to Main than Wall Street. Says President Kilgore: "If we ever get rid of the ups and downs of business, it will be because people now are reading much more about it and are acting on what they've learned by reading...
...fever of speculation in the press, and the speculation was enough to send the faithful aide winging into exile, as air attache in Britain's embassy in Brussels. Alerted by Royal Secretary Alan Lascelles, Winston Churchill himself had given the new Queen some blunt advice: get rid of him. Elizabeth complied, but at their last meeting she was careful to shake Peter Townsend's hand in public with a smile that seemed to many onlookers a token of encouragement...
Bolivia's professorial President Victor Paz Estenssoro, struggling to rid his poverty-stricken nation of its longtime dependence on tin exports, signed a decree last week opening the way for foreign capital to come in and drill for oil. As the government's cut, the new Bolivian law demands 11% of the crude oil produced, plus 30% of net profits, plus a yearly concession tax of a few cents an acre...
With a third down and 13 yards to go on their own 23, the Tigers tried a bucklateral play with Martin banding off to quarterback John Sapoch, who was supposed to pitch-out to the tailback running wide. He never got rid of the ball. Meigs came bursting through and knocked it right out of Sapoch's hands. Kennedy recovered for the Crimson...
...announced the lead story of the fake, had been distributed by editors, the parody appeared. The men of the Daily Prince were only successful in getting papers to parts of Leverett, Lowell, Winthrop, and Matthews Hall; elsewhere they failed completely. They then made an anti-climactic effort to get rid of the sheets on the Larz Anderson bridge before the game. The takers, however, were...