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Lithopolis, Ohio (pop. 300) hasn't changed much since stagecoaches to Columbus stopped there 75 years ago. The village has two restaurants, four churches and an undertaker-but no railroad station, bank or high school. Most Lithopolitans are in the farming or feed business. But Lithopolis has something most hamlets haven...
Dictionary Publisher Adam Wagnalls (born Wagenhals) of Funk & Wagnalls was born in' Lithopolis in 1843. When daughter Mabel Wagnalls Jones died two years ago, in Manhattan, she left most of her estate to the little town. Last week tax appraisers finally put a price tag on her unusual bequest. The money hadn't been left to the citizens themselves (though several tried to collect their "share"), but to the Wagnalls Memorial...
Some thought it all started when the Clark Poultry Farms at Middleboro had a bout with coccidiosis (poultry disease) six weeks ago. The Clarks, father & son, tried the medicines they knew, but still their chickens died. At last they called on a dark, popeyed man named John Brown, who lived nearby. He had, said rumor, a mysterious something, vaguely connected with atomic energy and called "the master cell," that could work scientific wonders...
...rise in sales, a 70% rise in profits to $2,019,029. Perhaps the best part of all this rich news was that backlogs, in general, were as big as ever. The prevailing optimism was expressed by Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., whose profits are running 66% over a year ago. Obviously undisturbed by coal-mine wage boosts, the company expected the second half to show "an even greater improvement...
...Queen. If so, it would be another radical departure, as no U.S. superliners have ever made money over any length of time. A case in point is the 26,314-ton America, present queen of the U.S. commercial fleet. Built for U.S. Lines eight years ago at a cost of $17,586,478 (of which the Government paid one-third), the America was bought by the Government for $10,853,791 in 1942 for use as a troopship (the West Point), was reconverted at a cost of $6,883,424 and chartered to U.S. Lines in 1946. Last week...