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...idea is that you have to wear out shoe leather, too, to make an ad campaign successful." Out after the Republican mayoralty nomination, Longstreth wore out plenty of leather. He spoke from street corners, campaigned on the Frankford El, shook hands with everyone aboard the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Ladies' Day" excursion to New York...
...empire over for a fraction of its worth and continued to run it, with the help of Thomas Jr., until 1939. Then, just before the Nazis took over Czechoslovakia, both fled the country. Thomas went to Canada, where he started a huge new Bata factory at "Batawa" near Frankford, Ont.; Jan came to the U.S., where he started a factory at Belcamp, Md. Muska had also fled, taking the Leader shares with him, but telling neither Jan nor Thomas about them. Not until 1942 did Muska privately reveal the existence of the shares. By that time, Jan had been blacklisted...
Glass Polishers. Two years ago Stargazers Porter & Ingalls marched into the Frankford Arsenal with an opportune proposal. The Army desperately needed workmen to make roof prisms for field and anti-aircraft guns and other military instruments. Porter & Ingalls said that amateur telescope-makers, who had years of experience in just such exact work, were eager to take a crack...
...nearby Frankford Hospital, the dead were taken to the basement, the injured upstairs. Soon Frankford Hospital had to report that it could handle no more patients. The ambulances moved on to other hospitals, to Philadelphia's Navy Yard...
...About 12,000 women are working at shell loading in the Middle West. Another 12,000 are making small-arms ammunition. Over 5,000 make gunpowder bags. Some 7,000 have jobs in Government arsenals. At Frankford, half the workers on small-arms ammunition are women...