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...space. There was a grinding wrench as the hoist rope caught around his ankle, flung him head down. Then the rushing wind and the force of his fall carried Bareiter in a hair-raising arc. Three times he was swung out in the air, three times crashed against the stack before he could seize the guy wire, lash himself to it with his belt...
...stockholder on the other side of the room asked: "How much preferred and common stock do the directors own?" President Humphrey, pointing to a big stack of ledgers under the table, replied: "That's difficult to say. The books are here for inspection." Adjusting his horn-rimmed glasses, he read "these figures from our treasurer": Tide Water's estimated net income for the year, $11,000,000. Available for common stock dividends, $1.26 per share. Last year the profits on common were 73? per share...
Aplomb never leaves Squire Baldwin, but Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was visibly nervous as he denied that Britain had put pressure on the radical French Cabinet to force them to propose the Neutrality Agreement barring arms shipments to Spain. "I wouldn't believe Eden on a stack of Bibles!" bawled Communist William Gallacher, M. P., and then savagely attacked Adolf Hitler's new Ambassador to Britain, onetime Champagne Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, who last week arrived at his post in a Nazi brown shirt. "He comes with his hands red with murder!" shrieked Red William. "I demand that...
Sitting back in his executive chair in the Chicago office last week, Grocer Grimes had the satisfaction of sifting through a stack of congratulatory messages in recognition of the oak he had nurtured from his original Acorn members. He had telegrams from Illinois' Governor Henry Horner, Senators Burton K. Wheeler and Millard E. Tydings, and Alf Landon. Longest of all, the Landon tele gram was dispatched from Topeka, Kans., although Mr. Landon that day was only a few blocks away in Chicago's Congress Hotel. Wrote Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House: "You have demonstrated . . . that problems...
Dick Shaughnessy. 14-year-old son of a Boston sporting-goods dealer: The all-gauge championship, No. 1 event of the National Skeet Championships; with a score of 248 out of 250, one better than his closest rival, 17-year-old Bobby Stack of Beverly Hills, Calif., who set a record by breaking 150 targets in a row; in St. Louis...