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...Diamond Drills. Stanley Marcus got his sales training from two masters of the art-his father, Herbert Marcus (who died in 1950), cofounder of the store, and his aunt, Mrs. Carrie Neiman (who died last March), the divorced wife of the other cofounder, A. L. Neiman. From the store's beginnings in 1907, long before Dallas smelled any oil, Herbert Marcus insisted on buying only the best. On Neiman's departure in 1928, after the divorce, Aunt Carrie became the dominant force of the store, proved time & again her uncanny ability to guess women's buying tastes...
...total steel output. The North German Lloyd line late this year will launch the first of six 10,000-ton passenger and cargo ships to go into service between Germany and the Far East, and Germany's C. C. Deilmann has won the exclusive rights to explore and drill for oil in Yemen...
...Electronic Drill. A new die sinking and drilling machine, which uses one of the softest metals (copper) as the cutting tool for some of the hardest (tungsten and titanium carbide), is being built by the Elox Corp., Clawson, Mich. The copper, acting as an electrode, can drill a hole one-tenth of an inch in diameter through 40 inches of steel. Expected price...
...some eels at play. Those particular eels, thought the Marchese Domingo de Mistura, need fresh water. Their presence was an unmistakable sign that there must be fresh-water springs under the island. With little more than that to go on, Mistura persuaded local and Italian officials to help him drill a well. Last week, after five months of digging through folds of hard rock near Anacapri, he struck fresh water at a point 171 feet below the sea surface. His theory: that he had struck an underground stream of water flowing from the Apennines near Naples. Whether it was enough...
Prew takes it without a word for months on end. They trip him in bayonet drill, cheat him in rifle inspection, and for every fault they find, Prew has to pay with K.P., extra laps around the track under full pack, or hours of digging enormous holes in the ground so that jeering noncoms can bury a single newspaper. (In the movie, Captain Holmes is forced to resign for his actions; in the book, he was promoted...