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...liquor industry last week turned up as a helper in a critical sector of the munitions business. From 20,000,000 bushels of Government-owned surplus corn, the distillers will run off 40-50,000,000 gallons of ethyl alcohol within the next year...
John Bernard Kelly, Democratic leader of Philadelphia, is tough. As a contractor's helper he once fell four stories without getting hurt. He was Olympic singles sculling champion (1920). At 51 he still rows, plays handball, swims, golfs. Last fall he went to Washington and told President Roosevelt that national defense demanded that all citizens toughen themselves for physical ordeals ahead...
...sure of winning, he will need lots of Republican votes, for Irish-born (in County Mayo), 51 -year-old Judge O'Dwyer is not exactly a pushover. A onetime longshoreman, plasterer's helper, he started pounding New York City's pavements as a rookie cop just 24 years...
Boss of Portland Gas is florid, bubbling Paul Boole McKee, who comes by his enterprise naturally. His great-great-grandfather founded McKeesport, Pa.; his grandfather and father founded San Francisco banks. Paul McKee has been a dollar-a-day carpenter, a machinist's helper, a track star (Stanford), boss of Electric Bond & Share's subsidiary in Brazil...
While museum visitors watched, Charley Turquoise and his helper squatted in the sand, crosslegged, smoothed it carefully with a long paddle, began carefully covering it with colored pictures of angular, oblong-bodied gods and animals. Their pigment, which they lifted in handfuls from five different bowls beside them, was powdered rock and charcoal-white, blue, yellow, black and red. Trickling each handful in a fine stream between thumb and forefinger, they drew lines and wedge-shaped patches as accurately as draughtsmen, pinched off a dot or a spot of color here & there as featly as if they were salting...