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...flat seat-cushion, hard like a mattress, sailed down from the crowd and landed somewhere near Lorenzo Garza. "Obscenity," muttered Lorenzo Garza. "I obscenity in the milk of their mattress." He was sweating and cursing and the bull was standing there and the crowd was yelling and the cushions and bottles were falling all about him because the unprintable bull did not want to be killed...
...singles, the judges' complicated scoring awarded the title to 196-lb. Ralph McCreath, Canadian champion, by .8 of a point over U. S. Champion Eugene Turner. > Silver-haired Willie Hoppe, 53-year-old, 45-year veteran cueman; the monthlong, round-robin tournament for the world's three-cushion billiard championship; for the second successive year; winning all but one of his 17 matches, after a tardy start because of pneumonia; at Bensinger's billiard parlors, Chicago...
...Conferred with Thomas H. MacDonald, Commissioner of Public Roads, on plans to construct a series of national superhighways as part of a post-defense program of vast, self-liquidating projects which would cushion industry against a postwar collapse. The President said he would ask Congress at this session for authorizations of projects...
...rise in 1941, and the production and sale of consumer goods will rise with it; 2) but some consumer industries will be curtailed for the sake of war production because "we do not dare wait"; 3) the consequent postponement of some consumer-goods demand will make a handy cushion for the post-Defense collapse; 4) but price inflation can only be controlled by increased taxes on and borrowing from the middle class, thus cutting down its consumption and making it Defense Victim No. 1; 5) retailers, though they will get more business in 1941, will have to take shorter markups...
...high-speed centrifuge man in the U. S. is Professor Jesse Wakefield Beams, of the University of Virginia, who has broken his own speed records again & again. Dr. Beams it was who invented the centrifuge rotor that floats on a cushion of the same air that drives it. Last fort night one of his graduate students, Lloyd E. MacHattie, turned up in Philadelphia to describe a new, again record-breaking Beams centrifuge whose rotor is eerily suspended in a vacuum by means of mag nets. It is driven by electrical induction (i.e., without wires). Apparently its speed is limited only...