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...still was the clearing that correspondents standing beside the old dining car 2419D could hear the beat of a thrush's wing, the sound of a woodpecker tapping against a beech tree in the Forest of Compiégne beyond. A warm June afternoon sun beat down on the clearing and cast purple shadows across the avenue leading through the forest from the clearing to a road. It was Friday, June 21, 1940. At exactly 3:15 o'clock, German summer time, from a touring car that had stopped at the far end of the avenue stepped...
...white man, he cuts loose with a song called A Fugitive from Esquire. As a harassed guide, he attempts to conduct some hooligans through the ''Modernist Room" of the Metropolitan Museum. As a harassed tree surgeon he takes the temperature and sap-pressure of an ailing beech...
...Electric, General Motors, Corn Products, American Can, International Nickel, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texas Corp., National Steel, Liggett & Myers "B," Reynolds Tobacco "B," U. S. Tobacco, American Telephone, Consolidated Edison, Public Service of New Jersey, Eastman Kodak, International Harvester, Procter & Gamble, Sherwin-Williams, Union Tank Car, American Chicle, Beech-Nut, General Foods, J. C. Penney, Sears-Roebuck, Commercial Credit, Commercial Investment Trust, Household Finance, International Business Machines, Allied Chemical, New Jersey Zinc, Homestake, Phelps Dodge, Bristol-Myers...
...Beech Aircraft for commercial cabin planes for photography...
...Englander of 57, President Smith is a self-made man who became general manager of Hartford-Empire's predecessor, Hartford-Fairmont Co., in 1915. He owns only a small block of stock in Hartford-Empire; most of it belongs to the Houghton family (Corning Glass Co.) and Beech-Nut Packing Co. Beech-Nut created the company in 1912 while looking for a good glass jar machine...