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...continent-spanning days. In the best year of the '30s (1937) the auto industry, with sales of 5,016,437 cars and trucks, led the parade. In the fair year of 1939 the auto industry, with sales of 3,245,000 cars and trucks, was the chief cushion against a real slump. But last summer, as Defense got under way, many an amateur war economist began counting Old Reliable out. Autos seemed to have no part in Defense...
Since the murder last year of Bolivia's dictator Colonel German Busch, who tried to nationalize tin exports, Bolivia's freelance politicos have followed the Patino formula of playing off the U. S. against Germany. They have made it a three-cushion game by also intriguing with the British, who, to preserve their profitable smelting monopoly, would rather not see Bolivian ore go direct to the U. S. But while Patino was in Spain, his old enemy and the No. 2 Bolivian tin miner, Mauricio Hochschild, took sides. Hochschild went to the U. S. last winter, contracted with...
...frame is a sheet-metal box, its "mattress" a cushion of air enclosed by the frame and a sheet of fabric stretched across its top. The fabric is treated so that it is almost, but not quite, impermeable to air. Thus the air in the cushion, though supporting the sleeper, slowly escapes from the bed and envelops him. The mattress does not collapse because more air is delivered to the bed from pressure tanks and. since air under pressure is cooled by expansion when it escapes, it reaches the bed at 52°. This is fine for hot nights...
Therefore the actual voting was largely jockeying in an attempt to cushion the stand and keep the Union together. The discussion was precipitated by a petition from the Student Union requesting a contribution...
...Trick Billiardist Charley Peterson, who has lectured on billiards at Harvard, whose business card reads "show me a shot I can't make." Sample Peterson shot: standing a half-dollar on its rim between two cubes of chalk in the centre of the table, sending it to the cushion and back between the cubes, with...