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Beaver-busy, Baker moved on to Manhattan, was soon vice-president of a credit company. In 1925, when two former Beaver associates came to him with options on rich gypsum ores* near Buffalo, the three teamed up to form National Gypsum, and buck U.S. Gypsum, which then had a virtual monopoly on wallboard. They had $150,000 in capital, and figured that they needed $2,000,000. Baker raised it in four months by sending his salesmen out to sell stock instead of wallboard. In 1926, with a total of 57 employees, he began mining the gypsum and turning...
...other times he is heard on records. These lectures, the only ones given at the university, last as a rule from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The gist of Ai's "philosophy" is contained in a book of his called Historical Materialism, which has become the virtual Bible of hsueh hsi. (Sample excerpts: "Communism is the exquisite acme of man's social evolution . . . The capitalistic world is being pushed into the grave step by step...
...birth, he was a wartime supporter of Tito, and when Tito broke with the Kremlin, Adamic broke too. He campaigned briefly for Henry Wallace in the 1948 campaign, then plunged back into his writing with the single-minded purposefulness of a dedicated man. Finally, he became a virtual recluse: his neighbors rarely saw him. Last year, the neighbors discovered that Adamic and his wife had simply vanished-their house was standing with locked doors and drawn shades amid a rising jungle of grass and plants...
...matter of arranging the next day's menus. When we do not have guests, this is an easy matter, for our own tastes are very simple. We both eat anything.' " Concluded Columnist Wright: "I felt that, despite Señora Franco's position as virtual 'Queen' of Spain, I had been visiting with any typical well-to-do American housewife...
...cabinet, seven of whose 13 members (including B.G.) were Histadrut members. Histadrut is not only a trade union, enrolling 75% of all Israeli workers; it is also, by far, Israel's largest industrial employer, owning or managing 14% of all the nation's industry, including a virtual monopoly on cement production, bus transportation, agriculture. Charged the General Zionists: the Histadrut-Mapai alliance was strangling free enterprise, obstructing new ventures...