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Last week in Washington the War Department grabbed time by the forelock, signed a $16,075,000 order for smokeless powder to be turned out by Hercules Powder Co. (operators of the famed Charleston, W. Va. nitro plant of 1918) from a mill still to be built near Radford, Va...
> Signed by Hercules Powder Co. was a $25,000,000 contract for a new powder mill, the second of thirty-three prospective plants.
¶ Small units of British and Italian planes, ships, tanks and troops clashed at various spots along the 4,000-mile arc from the Pillars of Hercules, around the Mediterranean, down through the Red Sea, through the Somalilands and into northern Kenya.
Last week, on the window of a shiny, 33-seat restaurant-lunch counter at 330 South Clark Street in the Loop, the name of Raklios appeared again. This time it was followed by two letters that marked the passing of a generation. The sign said "Raklios Jr." Proprietor of the...
Mayor Walter Tripp's brother has succeeded him in office. Present Mayor Hugh ("Hercules") Tripp runs the Corner Drug Store, suggests that Rochester would make a fine mountain resort if Ickes will build a mountain. Mayor Hercules wrote President Roosevelt, asking a PWA grant to rebuild Rochester's...