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Died. Jack ("Pop") Cooper, 68, wiry, white-thatched speedboat racer, two-time vinner of the U.S. National Sweepstakes Regatta (1937-40), onetime holder of every speed record for 225-cu.-in. hydroplanes; of injuries in a racing accident; in Syracuse...
...scrubbed the dollar signs off his price tags, substituted a figure in hog-pounds. When one of his customers came in with a load of fourteen 220-lb. hogs, Dealer Hanson did a little quick figuring. At 1941 prices, he pointed out, the hogs would have bought one 9-cu. ft. refrigerator. Last week the customer got not only the refrigerator, but an electric range, an automatic toaster-and $20 in change...
...water) enclosing a float attached to a moving arm arranged to swing around a marked scale. (On the basis of Archimedes' principle, the markings had been calibrated to register the weight of the water displaced, easily calculated from water's known weight by volume: 62.4 Ibs. per cu...
...ITALIAN TRAGEDY - Nicola Cu-ringa - Liveright ($2.50). The grim realities of a humble and emotional people engulf Peasant Giacomo as he returns from America to the poverty of his home in Italy during World War I. Clumsily told but rich in detail...
...scheme was just as good for tapping sources of water and gas. He drilled Ranney horizontal water wells in London and Lisbon and for 20 U.S. industrial plants, started a $20.000,000 water well in Paris just before the war. In Sydney, Australia, a Ranneywell yields 1.500,000 cu...