One sunny day last week New York City's Police Commissioner John Francis O'Ryan celebrated his 60th birthday. Same day Rubel Ice Corp., operating 40 distributing plants throughout the city, was making backpage news on the ground that the firm had refused to sell small ice peddlers short lots. Next day Rubel Ice Corp. was on Page 1 of every paper in the land, and Commissioner O'Ryan had received a most unwelcome birthday pres ent.
Shortly after 9 o'clock that morning a man in a white...
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