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...ztupit uff me. Ach, you haff dropt your book bak...
Murphy Workshop. A fold-up workshop for do-it-yourselfers has been put on sale by Dor-Bak Corp., Chicago. Measuring only 18 by 40 by 7 in. when closed, the workshop includes a workbench that supports 300 Ibs., heavy-duty electrical outlets, a peg board for hanging up tools. Price...
...government plunked down $18,000 of hard-won cash to buy a sturdy little 175-ft. patrol craft, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's training ship Ensign Whitehead. A crew of 16 Korean officers was flown to New York to bring her home. They rechristened her the Bak Dusan, studied her vagaries in a two-week orientation course at the academy, painted her white sides a dark battleship grey, and set sail for the Pacific...
...week Korea's little flagship lay at one of Pearl Harbor's huge docks awaiting armament. All over her topsides officers and crewmen, dressed alike in greasy dungarees and broad smiles, were busy sprucing her up. "Almost one year we gave money for this ship," said the Bak Du-san's radio officer, Joung Won Sam. "We needed the money, but we needed this ship worse." His companion, the Bak Du-san's executive officer, nodded enthusiastically. "But we're going to keep up the contributions," he added. "If we get enough money...
...Consolidated Royal Chemical Corp., which makes such proprietary drugs as Zymole Trokeys, Peruna, Boal's Rolls and Kolor-Bak ("Why have gray hair?"), is an amalgamation of three companies, Royal Drug Co. and Consolidated Drug Trade Products, Inc., in Chicago, and Consolidated Drugs, Ltd. in Canada. All three are the creations and property of the four Hirschfield brothers, James, Nathan, Harold and Irving. In 1916 James at 27 and Nathan at 25 had saved $12,000 from their retail drugstore in the Maxwell Street slum area of Chicago where they were raised, went into the wholesale drug business. Last...