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...Ordinary soil mixed with 15% cement paves the three 3,000-ft. runways of a new 300-acre airfield owned by Brewster Aeronautical Corp. in Bucks County, Pa. This saved hauling countless tons of gravel and sand to mix with the cement, cut costs 40%, saved time too. The cement-and-dirt pavement can scarcely be broken with sledge hammers, can easily absorb the pounding of Flying Fortresses, is expected to last over ten years. Air force engineers who developed it expect small cracks to appear during the winter, will seal the field with asphalt to prevent ice heaves...
...Robinson, born Walker Smith, first saw a pair of boxing gloves at the Brewster St. Recreation Center in his native Detroit, where, up to the time he was eight when his family moved to Harlem, he used to hang around watching Amateur Joe Louis and local big shots. He never laced on a glove until he was 13-and then only because he was urged to by Trainer George Gainford, who ran a gym in Harlem...
Buccaneer for the Brewster SB2A scout bomber...
...students sent a dummy tank to the White House with the inscription: "Dear President Roosevelt-keep America out of war." The Harvard Crimson said: "[We are] frankly determined to have peace at any price." The Crimson's President Spencer Klaw and the Yale Daily News's Kingman Brewster Jr. declared: "Intervention seems to us a fantastic moral proposition." Campuses throughout the land echoed their theme...
Yale. Last year's arch-isolationist News is still isolationist under holdover Chairman William Ford (who succeeded Kingman Brewster). But next January the News will switch; its next chairman will be Sterling Tomkins Jr., ardent interventionist...