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...Australia's Frank Sedgman, new U.S. National men's singles champion, and Maureen Connolly, new National women's singles queen (TIME, Sept. 17), the Pacific Southwest tennis championships; in Los Angeles. Playing on the Los Angeles Tennis Club's cement courts, Sedgman swept to his victory in the final over Cincinnati's Tony Trabert, 6-3, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, while Maureen, a day short of her 17th birthday, defeated Santa Monica's Beverly Baker, 9-7, 6-4. ¶Professional Golfer Betsy Rawls, 23, of Austin, Texas, the Women...
...meet the needs of Western defense. Since the beginning of the year, the value of listed stocks on the Toronto exchange has climbed from $10.2 billion to $12 billion. Last week, with the announcement of a new ore discovery, Quebec Copper soared from $1.35 to $2.95. Canadian Pacific, Canada Cement and the Aluminum Company of Canada all hit new 1951 highs...
Last month a twelve-man Belgian-French cave-exploring team went back to Basses-Pyrénées, made the long, hard climb from Licq-Athérey to Lépineux's discovery. They brought climbing ladders, cement to secure loose rock in the side of the chimney, and a windlass to lower the explorers into the unknown. Expedition Chief Max Cosyns, a Belgian nuclear physicist who goes after spelunking records on the side, estimated the chimney's depth by timing the echo from rocks that ricocheted off the limestone walls. The explorers were looking...
...whose 13 members (including B.G.) were Histadrut members. Histadrut is not only a trade union, enrolling 75% of all Israeli workers; it is also, by far, Israel's largest industrial employer, owning or managing 14% of all the nation's industry, including a virtual monopoly on cement production, bus transportation, agriculture. Charged the General Zionists: the Histadrut-Mapai alliance was strangling free enterprise, obstructing new ventures...
...Friendly Five" men's shoes at $5 a pair. Invading the North, he bought a tanning plant in Michigan, started a box-making division and a subsidiary to furnish low-cost cement, chemicals and finishes to the manufacturing plants. By 1941, his integrated company had 43 retail stores of its own, 10,000 other outlets, and sales of $24 million. Last year, with outlets in 18 nations, sales hit a new peak of $84 million, and General netted $4,000,000. Just before buying Johnston & Murphy, Maxey Jarman expanded by buying Massachusetts' W. L. Douglas...