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...flabbergasted San Diegoans by bluntly telling the guest of the day: "The aviation industry is being kicked around. We're being forced to expand more than any other industry in the country and yet we are being constantly subjected to investigations and limitations." He made Sidney Hillman blink with his cold announcement that he would not sign a new union wage agreement unless the Government backed him financially...
...limit to his party, he remained faithful, not only when the President kept him from becoming majority leader, but even when the White House double-crossed him on legislative matters. As chairman of the Finance Committee, he steered through the Senate New Deal legislation which made him wince and blink-a man as loyal as he was able, who, if he had had a little more energy, might have gone down in history as one of America's great statesmen...
...consistent record breaking of 23-year-old Les Steers has made track fans blink. A broad-shouldered, slim-hipped six-footer. Steers has been a jumping freak since he was so high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with...
Last week found the U.S. again in the season when scientists come out of their laboratories, blink, stretch and bustle off to share with the world their newest findings. Some of the more newsworthy disclosures at two noteworthy science meetings...
Allen Trevaskis '42 and Winny White '42 of Kirkland House were confidently at work yesterday fixing a newly acquired refrigerator which had gone suddenly on the blink, when the smell of sulfur began to fill the room. Before a leak of poisonous sulfur dioxide from the icebox was suspected, the two were half asphixiated...