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There was nothing about the Eisenhower tradition to suggest this choice. In a dim past the Eisenhowers were Swiss and the name was Eisenhauer. Ike's father and mother met at a small religious college in Kansas, married and raised their brood of boys. Mother Eisenhower still lives in the old white house in Abilene...
...last week the Navy and Marines were too busy fighting for their lives on Guadalcanal Island to brood over two-month-old losses. During the week they sank a Jap destroyer, damaged two cruisers and four other ships, shot down seven more planes. Totals since Aug. 7:38 ships damaged or sunk,* 245 planes shot down...
During the 1941 fall hunting season, Kalaf asked all quail hunters, but none had seen these strange birds. Then last week his young son Stanley rushed into the house with big news-back in the hills he had seen a hajjel hen with a large brood of chicks. Kalaf went out to check for himself, and there they were "chuk-chirrring" around as if they owned the Pinal Mountains-a development which may well come about, if the agile hajjel is as tough as Kalaf thinks...
...dividends. It also means that after the war the motor industry will not consist of three huge successful companies and a handful of independents struggling against odds. All the signs point to a motor industry in which the Big Three will have to face the competition of a vigorous brood of independents, wise in know-how and better founded financially than at any time in a decade. Thus last week Nash, Hupp, Hudson and Packard were the four most active stocks on the New York Stock Exchange-and all four hit new highs for the year...
...British jobs were curtain raisers. The Commission's Liberty shipbuilding soon got under way. First to be delivered: the Patrick Henry from the Bethlehem-Fairfield yard in Baltimore. An endless brood of Liberty ships, unbeautiful but worthy, began to plop into the waters. The fabulous Henry J. Kaiser (dams, concrete, magnesium) spat on his hands, went to work at Portland, Ore. Under Kaiser's son, Edgar, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. yards were launching two ships a week by February 1942. By the middle of March the yard had launched...