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...football is just like varsity football. Its offensive formations usually run out of a single wing (Yale sometimes uses a double wing). Defensively, the Fifties use all the standard lineups: five, six, seven-man, looping, overshifted lines. But, since all players weigh about the same (no more than 154 Ib. the day of the game), there is a premium on precision, speed, timing. A lightweight eleven's downfield blocking is often something even the pros might be proud of. Since Fifties play for fun rather than headlines, their strategies are more daring, more spectacular. Not unusual is a series...
Having brilliantly demonstrated economic lesson No. 1-lower prices to increase sales-turkey raisers are now working on lesson No. 2-keep the product up to date. Because ovens and families have grown smaller, big turkeys (20 to 30 Ib.) meet sales resistance. So the Department of Agriculture bred "streamlined" turkeys. The new birds go from egg to table in six months, are white-feathered, weigh up to 10 Ib., have more white meat. Last week, Manhattan's R. H. Macy capitalized on modernized, white-feathered, turkeys. Adopting Cadillac's 1933 limited-edition policy, it offered 750 "birds...
Their fastest ships were fitted to carry only 440-lb. bombs; the Ju-88 top load was 3,960 lb. (against 10,000 Ib. for a Flying Fortress). But these types could come & go in such numbers that the psychological effect of heavy mass raiding was achieved. Also, they introduced the Göring "breadbasket"-a big bundle of mixed incendiaries and explosives. For bass notes a few larger Nazi planes unloaded devastating 4,000-lb land mines, lowered by parachute to make their descent slow and silent, give no warning. One of their delayed-action bombs damaged...
...himself for a day's work in the field, averages from 18 to 35 lb. an hour. But last week's pickers were after something more than a day's pay. When the two-hour limit was up, one of the pickers had turned in 129 Ib. of "good clean cotton." He was 15-year-old Harold Mason, a shy, gangling Senath, Mo. schoolboy, youngest competitor in the field...
Brusque, able, serious-minded Joseph Ball is called by other Minnesota political writers the best-grounded writer on government in the Twin Cities. Popular, but no handshaker, with 180 Ib. on his 6 ft. frame, he was born in Crookston, Minn., raised seed corn to pay his way through a year of Antioch College, went to the University of Minnesota (but did not graduate), got a job on the Minneapolis Journal when he was 21, married a reporter on the same paper, took a year off, like all newspapermen, to free-lance writing fiction. Back on the St. Paul Despatch...