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Once this would have sounded like big talk. But last week the bustling light planemakers were full of much bigger talk. They had the fattest backlog of civilian orders in their lives. The military cutbacks, which were a curse to most of the industry Goliaths, were a blessing to its Davids. Eagerly they had cleared their plants of war work. Now reconverted, they were taking off on the biggest boom ever...
...pocket he had some 5,300 orders (with cash deposits), probably the fattest backlog of anyone in the light-plane industry. And there were plenty more in the offing, thanks to a smart deal to sell his planes in department stores (John Wanamaker's Manhattan and Philadelphia stores and Mandel Bros, in Chicago already have contracts to sell Piper planes). Next year, he hopes to step way out in front of the industry with his single-place, 90-m.p.h. Skycycle, which will sell for under...
...Republican committee members, wistfully talking of high-tariff prosperity and solidly opposed to further reductions, Henry Wallace looked like a symbol of their discontent. They quizzed him about everything from killing pigs to full em ployment. To Minnesota's finance-minded Harold Knutson he looked like the fattest target he had seen in months...
...nation's fattest cash prizes for art was copped last week by a grossly satirical picture of unbuttoned sensuality. For Strip Tease in New Jersey, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. handed over its $2,000 W. A. Clark First Prize Award to blond, balding Reginald Marsh...
...blessed. Others begged to touch the hem of his robe or (when he wore a uniform) the cuffs of his well-creased trousers. Six Katsinans trekked four days & nights through the jungle to glimpse the red-fezzed head of their Emir. Sergeant Gombo Gombe ("Mr. Five by Five"), fattest front-line fighter in Burma, stripped to the waist to get his rifle immaculate enough to fire a royal salute...