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Most race track barns are tinder dry. The one housing Elizabeth Arden Graham's horses at Arlington Park, near Chicago, was no exception. Flames, from a fire caused by an unwatched electric heater, licked over the loose straw bedding and lapped at wooden partitions. A Negro groom threw a single bucket of water, saw that it was futile and made a beeline to save the horses...
...Among them: Eric Johnston's three Spokane companies (TIME, March 4), Williamson Heater Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Lance Inc., Charlotte...
...Iturbi, warm-blooded conductor-pianist, shaved & bathed in cold water for a few days, then took action against his Los Angeles plumber, who had his hot-water heater. The plumber, charged Iturbi, hadn't carried out a repair job as promised, but demanded $50 before he would return the heater. The chattering maestro sued for $3,000 damages...
...Propulsion. In Los Angeles, suicide-bent Ronald Neff turned on the gas, forgot to douse the water-heater pilot, blasted himself safely out the window...
...York Shipbuilding Corp., 59.3%; 3) American Airlines, 24.1%; 4) Pan American Airways Corp., 9.2%; 5) American Central Mfg. Corp. (kitchen sinks and cabinets), 60.8%; 6) Roosevelt Field Inc. (on Long Island), 20%; 7) American Propeller Corp., 100%; 8) Lycoming Division (small aircraft motors), 100% ; 9) Spencer Heater Division, 100%; 10) Republic Aircraft Products Division...