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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Captain Hugh Edmonds promoted to the varsity, Lee Pernies will start at quarterback. Another backfield change, necessitated by an injury to left halfback Dusty Burke, will find Slug Dolan there...
Coach Art Valpey devoted the bulk of his time at the practice to seeking a replacement for Chuck Walsh, who broke his leg Saturday against Princeton and will be out for the rest of the season. Valpey has brought Hugh Edmonds up from the Jayvees in an effort to find a new second string offensive quarterback to replace Walsh...
When Corn Products Refining Co. set out to build a new plant at Corpus Christi, Texas two years ago, it wanted to find some new solutions to the old problems which have always plagued the grain-processing industry-explosive dust and dangerous fumes. It gave the job to Cleveland's H. K. Ferguson Co., builder of the thermal diffusion unit* of the Oak Ridge atom bomb plant. Ferguson engineers decided that the best way to eliminate dangerous working conditions within enclosed spaces was to build a plant without walls...
Christopher Columbus (Rank; Universal-International) turns an exciting bit of history into a series of dull tableaux in antiqued color. Even ten-year-olds, at whom this British-made movie is plainly aimed, will find it about as thrilling as an afternoon spent looking at Christmas cards...
After reading Roosevelt and the Russians, many readers will still find it hard to condone the deal, made behind China's back, by which Russia got control of Manchurian ports and rail lines, and President Roosevelt agreed that he would see to it that China swallowed her cup of tea. Nor will most readers fail to wonder how F.D.R. could blandly turn over the Kuril Islands, which control the short air route from Alaska to the Far East. The explanation Stettinius gives: U.S. military chiefs urged Roosevelt to get Stalin into the war against Japan at any cost...