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Ford rearmament projects include contracts for 1,500 Army bantam combat cars ("Blitz buggies") and, far more important, for 4,200 Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp engines. The Blitz buggies had already begun to roll off the assembly line, but the new $22,000,000 plant to house production of the aircraft engines was still abuilding. Work on it ceased when A.F. of L. construction workers refused to venture past the C.I.O. picket lines...
This song, New San Antonio Rose, may baffle or even irritate fastidious rhetoricians, and its tune is strictly golden bantam. Yet last week Decca Records reported that in January alone the song had sold 84,500 discs-sung by the Caruso of the juke boxes, bland Bing Crosby...
...nightly on the radio, appealing to U. S. mothers to write their Congressmen, protesting against the bill. Some mothers did. The group known as the "Mothers' Crusade Against Bill 1776" did more: they staged a sit-down strike in the Senate Office Building corridors before the door of bantam, spitfire Carter Glass of Virginia, who is ready to declare war on Hitler any time. The Mothers' leader, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Dilling (author of The Red Network), mother of two, called Tartar Carter, father of four, "an overage destroyer of American youth." Persimmony Veteran Glass invited...
...rough a roster as ever climbed into a ring. In honor of the occasion they squared off for a few photographic passes : double-chinned Mickey Walker, looking very little like the "Toy Bulldog" terror of the '20s; Politicuffing Restaurateur Jack Dempsey (lightly supporting Lou Salica, current bantam champ); leering Jimmy Braddock, erstwhile rags-to-riches Heavyweight Champion (with Tommy Forte, Salica's hottest rival, on his shoulders); and skinny, Texas-drawling Lew Jenkins, who can lick all lightweights...
Three days before, Vice President Garner, in khaki shirt and khaki pants, had been squatting on the front porch of his home in Uvalde, Tex., telling newsmen that the only thing that interested him was four setting bantam hens and his eight-acre "patch." Two months ago, just after his Presidential aspirations had gone up in cigar smoke at the Democratic Convention, he had gone to ground in Uvalde, and there he had stayed. When he was asked about his plans, and whether he thought of returning to his duties in Washington, he replied: "Tomorrow is only a day away...