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Surprise Package. Northern Pacific proved itself chock full of other surprises. At week's end, Ohio Match Co., in the sleepy town of Wadsworth, Ohio (pop. 7,943), let'out a well-kept secret. Its annual report disclosed that it owns 167,500 shares of Northern Pacific, the biggest single block. If this did not give Ohio Match working control of the railroad, it at least gave it the biggest single voice in its management. Unlike other investors, Ohio Match had not been buying Nipper for its oil lands; it was buying it for its timber lands...
...libraries were chock full," Eddy said...
Mikki was what Ellen Vaughn had instead of God. He was a strange deity chock-full of panels, bobbins, and spools of wire. His memory was perfect and his playback repertory ran to 463,635 recorded hours. Ellen's late father, an audio-research addict, had fed Mikki everything: Bach, stock-market predictions, forgotten pre-Edison records. "Some jukebox!" said her younger brother Charles, admiringly. But Mikki was more than a giant jukebox; he was first cousin to all the electronic brain machines whose touted destiny is to make modern man obsolete...
Soon after, the other suspect quit his job; then another chock was passed two days ago. Three officers arrested Knaus at his Mt. Vernon Street home yesterday afternoon. A Cambridge Trust teller identified him as the forger...
Hilda Crane (by Samson Raphaelson; produced by Arthur Schwartz) is purely synthetic stuff, but it is chock-full of what a lot of people mean when they speak of a play. It dramatizes the problem of a woman-a woman twice married and divorced, passionate by nature, restless in spirit, divided in mind. In a chastened mood, she marries an admiring dullard she doesn't love, embraces a provincial and domestic existence that cannot last. The play possesses a full pack of such characters as the tough-minded mother (Beulah Bondi) and the son-worshiping mother-in-law (Evelyn...