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...worried because he had killed his white employer in alleged self-defense. The mob brushed politely past Deputy Sheriff Holder, past the open steel doors and heavy bars. They took Howard Wash away with them to Welborn's Bridge and left him there-hanging limp like a broken crow, his slack toes pointed down at the drying creek...
Cocky, independent automaker Studebaker Corp. - which was in receivership in 1933-35 - last week had something it could really crow about: its 1942 munitions out put will hit $215,000,000, twelve times its total World War I arms production and double its biggest peacetime year. Main reason: the company's remarkable ability in mass-producing intricate, 8,000-part, 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclone engines for giant four-engined U.S. bombers. Studebaker turns them out in huge, sparkling, air-conditioned factories at South Bend, Ind., had speeded the job with time-killing machines like the 1 75-foot...
Once the physical barrier, the actual setting up of the "crow's nests," is overcome, he expects that opponents will cooperate wholeheartedly in this "laboratory test...
Despite the axe of wartime necessity which hangs over the head of intercollegiate sports, basketball coach Earl Brown will, in a few days, approach the H.A.A. with the proposal that Harvard ho the first Eastern university to experiment with the "crow's nest" system of officiating, a much discussed innovation from out of the West...
Certainly, he continued, the competency of the referees is beyond question, since most of them have spent years on basketball floors, either as coaches, players, or arbiters. The crow's-nest may be the solution. Test conducted in such big-time atmosphere as the national intercollegiate championships at Kansas City last year showed that it eliminates several possible sources of error...