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Down to a bunting-draped Milwaukee depot one morning last week rode 75 bewhiskered, top-hatted men and hoopskirted women in three horse-drawn wagons. They piled into two yellow and maroon coaches and set off for a round trip to Wauwatosa, five miles westward, hauled by the same tiny, puffing "Old No. 1" locomotive that made the same trip to Wauwatosa 100 years ago. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad-whose tracks now cover 11,000 miles and reach through twelve states from Chicago to Seattle-was celebrating its centennial...
...Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. But the fact was that only one full-scale plane of the XF5U type was ever manufactured (by Chance Vought), and it never flew. A 3,000-lb. scale model, the V-173, made its last test flight in 1947, is now at Norfolk Navy Depot ticketed for transfer to the Smithsonian Institution. It was pictured in U.S. publications, including TIME, in July...
Birdseed & Bandages. Radio Technician Godfrey was sent to a Coast Guard Depot outside Baltimore. Searching for some more interesting avocation than drinking needled beer, he turned up on an amateur hour at station WFBR. With his banjo and one-octave voice, he landed a birdseed company as a $5-a-show sponsor. He also picked up another chore-introducing the speeches of Maryland's late, belligerently anti-dry Governor Albert Ritchie. When Godfrey was offered a full-time job on WFBR, the governor helped him get his separation from the Coast Guard...
...supplies are more than adequate at present," Hall said yesterday. The company maintains its own storage depot in South Boston, which is regularly supplied by a fleet of its own tankers...
Wrong Foot. Near McAlester, Okla., Sid M. Puryear, employee at the naval ammunition depot, got a bad bruise when a crate containing 1,900 pairs of safety shoes fell on his foot...