Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Egon Ludwig Hanfstaengl ("Putzi's" son but a patriotic U. S. citizen) got down to 200 Ib. before he was taken into the Air Corps. He is now a buck private in training at Maxwell Field in Alabama. Weight range for Air Corps recruits: 115 to 200 Ib. Height range: 5 ft. to 6 ft. 4 in. Requirements for pilots are narrower but not rigidly denned-i.e., they must be well-balanced physical specimens...
...Aluminum Co. of America is a monopoly, started an antitrust suit that has yet to be decided. Last year the Government took a more direct route to the same end. Its RFC loaned smart little Reynolds Metals Co. $15,800,000 to build its own aluminum ingot plant (in Alabama) to compete with Alcoa. Month ago RFC advanced another $4,200,000 to Reynolds, to help with a Bonneville plant. Last week Reynolds Metals put out its 1940 report, proof that Alcoa's competitor was growing fast. Its 1940 sales were a record $29,158,000, up 42% from...
...early 1900s, when Northern popular musicians played only potted-palm tunes, big, black, Alabama-born Jim Europe held Negro jam sessions in a cafe in West 53rd Street. White folks dropped in, hired so many of Europe's friends to play "gigs" - single party dates - that Jim opened a booking office. He formed a Clef Club of Negro jazzmen, gave a concert in Carnegie Hall in 1911. He (at the piano) and his boys played for Vernon and Irene Castle. Once he excited the Castles' curiosity by playing Memphis Blues too slow for their brisk one-step. That...
...pros within a year-football fans speculated on his successor. Traditionally, Notre Dame's coach must be an alumnus. That specification applied to 40-odd possible candidates, notably, Jim Crowley (Fordham), Harry Stuhldreher (Wisconsin), Jim Phelan (Washington), Buck Shaw (Santa Clara), Eddie Anderson (Iowa), Frank Thomas (Alabama), Clipper Smith (Villanova), Gus Dorais (Detroit), Frank Leahy (Boston College), Charlie Bachman (Michigan State). At South Bend people thought that the University would probably ignore these top-notchers, promote Line Coach Joe Boland, for seven years Layden's understudy...
...Alabama's Muscle Shoals area, northwest of Birmingham, the Reynolds Metals Co. is building a $23,500,000 aluminum plant and a $17,500,000 rolling mill. Planned for the Republic Steel Corp. plant at Gadsden is a $6,000,000 addition to forge 105-mm. anti-aircraft shells. Also in the blueprint stage are a $12,800,000 underground ammunition storage area at Anniston, a $47,997,000 powder plant and $15,000.000 powder-bag loading plant at tiny Childersburg (population...