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Double duty is Wayne Baird's middle name: for more than two years he has been doubling on war work with his friend Anthony R. Engler, owner-manager of Texas Specialty Co., whose tiny plant backs up to Baird's. Elderly Wayne Baird's plant used to turn out small metal parts for oil-field machinery; elderly Anthony Engler's made toys. But in October 1940 they landed a joint $200,000 shell-fin contract which they executed with such success that last month they snagged a new one. This time...
Baird and Engler contrived to do all their war work without one penny of Government funds for new equipment. When they needed new machines they rigged up their own Rube Goldberg contraptions (Baird is proudest of a crane he made out of pulleys', sash cords and weights from Texas Washer windows). They bought their materials jointly, ran production lines from one plant into the other. Recently they were thrilled to hear that they were due for an Army-Navy E to reward their joint efforts (the first dual plant award in the U.S. and the first Ordnance award...
...Baird and Engler, who both have terrible tempers, almost came to blows deciding whose plant to use for the ceremonies, whose could fly the E flag thereafter. Major Dinwiddie intervened with a Solomon's solution. Next week their neighborhood movie house will play a new kind of double feature: on that neutral ground the Army will present an E flag apiece to Wayne Baird and Anthony Engler...
HARVARD PENN Koufman, r.e. l.e., Gustafson Healey, r.t. l.t., Engler Sargeant, r.g. l.g., Brochka Ayres, c. c., Frick Lowry, l.g. r.g., B. Smith Miller, l.t. r.t., Runte Mackinney, le. r.e., Warner Coleman, q.b. q.b., Reagan Gardella, r.h.b. l.h.b., Davis Macdonald, l.h.b. r.h.b., Allen Spreyer, fb. f.b., Rainwater...
...horde of big and active forwards. The first front wall averages 195 pounds from end to end, and the reserves are every bit as big. The three ranking ends, Captain Gustafson, Warner, and Miller are rangy and hard to circle. The tackles are headed by Yard, Cohen, Runte, and Engler--841 pounds of tackle material all told...