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Walter Beech is only half of Beech Aircraft. As secretary-treasurer, Olive Ann works 10-12 hours daily. When expansion plans were afoot last year, she was in a Wichita hospital having her second baby. But she had a direct hospital-plant telephone and the directors met at her bedside. Later she and two associates went to Washington, got Emil Schram to okay a $13,540,508 RFC revolving credit...
Through the participation of professors and students in international relations the work of the council will be raised above the level of ordinary discussion groups. Yet presentation of the material in forum meetings will make the results available to all interested. Plans are also afoot to publish a magazine embracing the findings and opinions of the committees...
Meanwhile the Army is beginning to get 30-ton mediums. In the Armored Force, plans are already afoot to use a bigger proportion of the mediums (armed with 75 mm. cannon) and an improved M-4 model is soon to go into production (biggest improvements: a revolving turret for the 75, lower silhouette, a partly welded, partly cast armor hull). British officers now concede that today's M-3 model is the finest thing on the ground...
...month later, early in May, James Maybrick took to his bed, complaining of nausea and pains in his legs. Daily he grew worse. On the morning of the 8th, the children's nurse decided that something sinister was afoot. She confided in a friend of the Maybricks, who telegraphed to Brother Michael Maybrick, a London songwriter: "COME AT ONCE; STRANGE THINGS GOING ON HERE." The nurse's suspicions had been aroused by the sight of Florrie Maybrick soaking flypapers in water. The flypapers contained arsenic. Through the servants' quarters crept the horrified conviction that Florrie was poisoning...
Probably about 50,000,000 radio-fight fans* will listen in for good reason. Not only is Lou Nova about as likely to beat Joe Louis as any challenger now afoot, but even if Joe Louis wins-and the chances, as always, are better that he will than that he won't-it may be Joe's last fight. Recently reclassified 1-A by a Chicago draft board, the Brown Bomber will probably join the Army next month...