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Last week Utilitarian Foshay was starting on his fourth year as paid secretary of the Salida Chamber of Commerce. The annual membership drive was under way and he was working like a beaver. Back of him were three years of success. Salida was on its way to becoming a ghost town in the early '30s. The Denver & Rio Grande Western took away its shops and offices, two mines closed down, 3,000 citizens moved away. First thing W. B. did was advertise. On the highways he set up strings of hearts bearing the admonition "Follow the Hearts to Salida...
...lead the nation now if Churchill were liquidated by a German bomb. . . . Mr. Ernest Bevin, former farmer's boy, self-educated boss of the Trade Union movement, and Minister of Labor is a strong man. . . . All three are forceful, tireless, fearless, arrogant, patriotic and stubborn." "And now," wrote Beaver's 19th Century Baxter, "as the guns won't stop, I shall. The fire in the grate has gone to sleep, which seems an excellent idea...
...Ministry's belated story of how invasion was stiff-armed on Sept. 16 seemed timed to bolster public courage-and details of it came to Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaver-brook's newspapers from "neutral" sources in Spain at just the right moment. A change in the command of the Home Fleet also well suited the emergency...
...showed the court as an angel in pursuit of a husband who has deserted his wife and child. Alice Kent Stoddard, Philadelphia painter of children, made a sedate, fuzzy mural of children building a city of tomorrow, with her Maltese cat in one corner. Another mural, by Benton Spruance, Beaver College art teacher, did not seem to prove anything about the Law. It showed a Philadelphia family waiting...
Much of the expansion was forced by TVA's own industrial customers, many of whom are beaver-busy with war orders. Last week TVA customer Vultee Aircraft announced a $9,000,000 expansion at Nashville. Aluminum Co. of America's aluminum sheet (for planes) plant at Alcoa, Tenn. is the only Alcoa sheet plant in a U. S. prime defense area. B. F. Goodrich Co. at Clarksville, Tenn. is making gas-mask parts. Other TVA plants are making gun and shell parts, boilers, airplane fabrics, ferromanganese. Army shoes, blankets, underdrawers, etc. Biggest defense plant in the region will...