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These Days Are Better. For the moment at least, Scotsmen are working again. Even on the normally turbulent Clyde-side, where strikes and upheavals resulted in the granting of then-revolutionary trade-union rights in the midst of World War I, there is now political quiet. The 100%-profits tax, making employers relatively generous with wages, leaves firebrands little besides absentee ownership and shipyard discipline to protest about. For their part, shipyard owners complain about "absenteeism"-workers occasionally take a day off just for the hell...
...Riddle, for the good of racing, waives the stud fee for poor owners of mares with fine strains. Through 1941 he has sired 335 registered foals. His get had won 1,069 races for $2,970,428. Some of his more brilliant offspring: American Flag, Crusader, War Admiral, Mars, Clyde Van Dusen, Bateau, Scapa Flow, War Glory, Genie and Battleship. Big Red was the famed Seabiscuit's grandpa. Though his weight is up a little and his back has sagged a trifle, he still has plenty of life in him: this year he will take care of from...
John M. Alcorn, Clyde D. Bird, Jr., Richard C. Bryan, George E. Brown, Jr., Andrew S. J. Crichton, Stuart C. Davidson, Nathan S. Davis, Jr., Michael De Leo, Lloyd L. Duxbury, Jr., Joseph L. Eldredge, Oliver D. Filley, Jr., Franklin C. French, Donald S. Gair, William F. Ganong, Hans G. Hachman, Thomas V. Keene...
...Clyde D. Bird...
Denverites had good reason to be proud: the launching meant that their subcontracting problem had been licked. Led by a former incubator manufacturer, Clyde C. Hartzell (now head of WPB's Denver contract-distribution office), a pool of eight local steel-products manufacturers and 15 smaller machine shops landed a $56,000,000 hull subcontract two months ago. They did so well on their first job that this week they landed a second. Now the pool is working on fittings and hulls for 27 ships, expects it will tax every machine shop in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico...