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...Getting tougher on several fronts at once (see col. 2), WPB last week took direct control of suppliers' inventories in a broad list of 19 trades. Henceforth no wholesaler, distributor or retailer in these trades can carry more than two months' stock on hand (if he lives in the Mountain or Pacific States, three months'). The order covered suppliers to the automotive, building, dairy, electrical, farm, foundry, hardware, plumbing, railroad, restaurant, textile mill and practically every other trade that uses any metal...
...permanently magnetized when an electrical current flows through it. Hence, in the core of a distributor coil, it allows a high spark output at all engine speeds. This solves a problem which has troubled engineers as high-speed motors have demanded ever higher spark efficiency...
...Decade for $100,000. Named by red-hating Lyons as a fellow traveler who defended Moscow's mass trials and executions, Lamont protested that Lyons had wrongfully classified him as a "stinker." Lyons retorted with a charge that Lamont, a Civil Liberties di rector, forced giant book-distributor Baker & Taylor to drop the book by threatening suit, a The day that Socialist Norman Thomas made an anti-war talk outside the University of California, his son, Evan, 21, quit Princeton to drive an ambulance for the British in the Near East. ∙∙ John L Lewis' daughter, Kathryn...
...Harcourt, Brace has become the U.S. distributor for the untrammeled books in German of Bermann-Fischer Verlag, now mostly printed in Sweden, which reach the U.S. by devious and precarious routes. It was husky, sunburned...
...James F. Waters, 46, supersalesman, who sold $10,000,000 worth of streamlined cabs in New York City, $70,000,000 worth of automobiles from coast to coast; of drowning; in his swimming pool in Woodside, Calif. Onetime Air Corps instructor, he became Plymouth-De Soto's greatest distributor, air-commuted between his East and West Coast businesses...