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...aircraft industry, riding the crest of a war boom, now offers almost unlimited opportunities to the college graduate. But there is always the danger that the bubble will burst...
...least 70 places, to reclaim what centuries of Dutch ingenuity had taken from the sea. It was perhaps the worst Dutch disaster since St. Elizabeth's Flood in the Middle Ages, in which thousands lost their lives. In the Frisian Islands to the north, the flood crest went as high as 30 feet. Floodwater lapped at the outlying parts of Rotterdam (pop. 650,000) and poured over Dordrecht (pop. 70,000) a little to the southeast. In a matter of hours, roughly a sixth of The Netherlands' 13,000 sq. mi.-an area where 1,000,000 Dutchmen...
...village of Nkroful, where his father, a Twi (pronounced Twee) tribesman, hammered out gold ornaments for local woodcutters. A Catholic mission taught him the three Rs, and the Fathers sent him up to the Gold Coast's Achimota College. Achi-mota crackles with black & white brains (its crest is a piano keyboard, with black & white keys playing together in harmony). Nkrumah graduated (in 1931) with an itch to teach...
...Doberman pinscher, Ch. Rancho Dobe's Storm (see cut opposite), defends the best-in-show title which he won last year in the annual Westminster Kennel Club competition at Madison Square Garden. The judge who last year picked Storm over the defending champion boxer, Bang Away of Sirrah Crest, called him "the greatest Doberman I've ever seen...
...days as a football star at Jacksonville High School and the University of Georgia. He quit school in his senior year (1932) to organize the Florida Pipe & Supply Co. with his father and older brother. His brothers, Sam, Sol, Cecil and Nathan, became his partners, and they rode the crest of the wave of the expanding chemical and pipeline industries...