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...competitor was growing fast. Its 1940 sales were a record $29,158,000, up 42% from 1939. Net earnings were $2,428,000 v. $1,527,000 in 1939. Once wholly dependent upon Alcoa's aluminum, Reynolds Metals is now feeling its oats. This week its president blasted blanket priorities: ". . . If enforced . . . without reasonable notice to the trade, only the Aluminum Company of America stands to profit...
...Lewis is currently the interest at the U.T., where the Marx Brothers are appearing in a movie. "Go West," a slap-sticky effort designed to make Horace Greeley regret his advice, succeeds in amusing more often than it bores. Worth-while if only for Harpo's solo on a blanket-loom...
...Swagman: hobo; billabong: waterhole; jumbuck: sheep; tuckerbag: food bag; squatter: sheep rancher; waltzing Matilda: hobos' affectionate name for their bag (bundle with blanket, tin cup, etc.) as it dangles from their shoulders and jounces with their pace...
...hospital in it. At the hospital, it was discovered that the baby had already been born. Meanwhile, Farmer Joseph Siefert. on his way to town, saw something in the snow near the doctor's abandoned car. It was the newborn baby. He wrapped it in a blanket and rushed it to town. "We must have dropped him in the snow," announced the incredulous Dr. Smith. "The baby hasn't even developed a sniffle...
...spectroscope splits light into patterns in which the "signatures" of various elements and compounds can be identified. Light from Mars comes through the earth's air blanket, which contains water vapor, so Dr. Adams had to separate the terrestrial vapor pattern from the Martian (if any). This he did with the help of a phenomenon called the Doppler effect: when a source of light approaches earth, its spectrum lines are shifted to the right, and when it is receding they are shifted to the left. At times when Mars is fast approaching or retreating, the Doppler effect should pull...