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...Appropriations Committee unexpectedly failed to provide $500,000 that was to start Am Ex's preliminary mail flights to Lisbon (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week, undaunted Am Ex officials rolled with this punch. Led by quick-smiling, deep-voiced Vice President James Murchie Eaton, they went to Baltimore, threw a party aboard their new ocean freighter S.S. Executor. While 60 guests ogled the boat, Am Ex bigwigs huddled with Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, trying to solve another problem: a U. S. landing place for their would-be airline. Because New York's North Beach Airport (where...
Still rolling with fate's and Pan Am's blows, Am Ex held to its schedule, last fortnight threw a gay party in New Orleans' famed Antoine's. There to meet city and State officials was New Zealand-born, hard-hitting, one-eyed Lowell Yerex, founder and president of TACA. Purpose of the banquet was to dramatize Am Ex's request to CAB for a New Orleans-Panama route across the Gulf via Guatemala. New Orleans papers, envisioning their city as an international airport, played ball. Next morning the respected Times-Picayune ran a four...
...Arzberger, a Commercial Solvents Corp. researcher, cultured from Louisiana cane-field soil a new bacterial species which ferments sugar to produce industrially useful solvents. He gave it the jaw-cracking name of Clostridium saccharo butyl acetonicum liquefaciens. Then he tried to patent it, as a plant. The patent examiner threw out his claim...
...Series player I ever saw." Though Pepper Martin never again reached his 1931 World Series form, he became the most fabulous figure in baseball. They called him "The Wild Horse of the Osage." He was the loudest and toughest of the Cardinals' famed Gashouse Gang. Once, when he threw a ball during a game, yards of bandage unraveled from his hand. Manager Frisch stopped the game, learned to his amazement that Martin was playing with a broken finger. "Aw," said Pepper, "it's only a small bone." He horrified the Cardinals' President Sam Breadon by playing football...
Among those invited into the syndicate were Halsey, Stuart (for a participation of $1,200,000) and Eaton's Otis & Co. (which was finally offered a participation of $825,000). This set off the fireworks. Eaton, nostalgically recalling the days when Otis headed San Antonio deals, threw the offer back at Mellon Securities. When Mellon Securities paid no attention to his kick, Eaton violated bankers' unwritten rules by going directly to the San Antonio management, asking whether he could submit a competitive bid. The San Antonio management, fearful of SEC repercussions if it refused, agreed to listen...