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Alcoholic Content. In Beloit, Wis., Fisherman Louis Mclntyre took a 21¾-lb. muskellunge to a taxidermist, who looked inside, found a full 12-oz. bottle of beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1945 | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Colonel Wood's successor has not been announced yet. Filling Fox's position will be Colonel John K. Stotz who headed the Electronics School here before Fox took over. Stotz, a native of Beloit, Wisconsin, is at present in the Philadelphia headquarters of the Signal Corps Survey Agency. He is a graduate of the Electronics school here and was its commanding officer from March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colonels Wood, Fox Leaving Army Units | 9/10/1943 | See Source »

...MacPhail & The Kaiser. Redheaded Larry MacPhail, age 14, played the organ in an Episcopal church in Scottville, Mich. At 16 he passed examinations for the U.S. Naval Academy, and naturally went off at once to college in Beloit, Wis., where he is remembered as one of the loudest debaters in college history. At 20, after graduating from the University of Michigan and getting a law degree at George Washington University, young MacPhail turned down an appointment to the French consular service. At 25 he was president of a Nashville department store. In Nashville, MacPhail met Luke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball's Barnum | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...There are very serious local shortages. Worst of these are in Portland, Me.; Hartford; Buffalo; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Hampton Roads, Va.; Charleston, S.C.; Mobile, Ala.; Rockford, Beloit area, Rock Island, and Moline, Ill.; Davenport, Iowa; Seattle-Tacoma; Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego. And shortages are already on the horizon in such key cities as Detroit, Akron, Wichita, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Both WPB and WMC are now committed to a policy of "bringing work to the labor, not labor to the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Manpower Shortage Next? | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Army's stumbling block is training facilities for pilots. Of potential manpower there is aplenty. In Bangor, Beloit and Berkeley young men with sound bodies and good heads, who had passed their mental and physical examinations, cooled their heels at home, waiting to be called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Pilot Shortage | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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