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Pretty, 23-year-old Mrs. Virginia Mathers Matthews, her legs and chest crippled by infantile paralysis, has been kept alive for the last month in an iron lung. Last week, in Los Angeles County General Hospital, she gave birth to a spanking 6 Ib. 3 oz. boy. Drs. Dan Golenternek and Nathan Spishakoff delivered her child in 13 minutes without drugs, anesthetics or forceps. During this time she was out of the lung, wore an oxygen mask. Mrs. Matthews was the third iron-lung patient in North America to have a baby. Hers is the first case in which both...
...young men of 77 showed the world that they are not superannuated: Henry Ford in celebration of his birthday took a ride for photographers on the light (12 Ib.) English bicycle on which he likes to take a three-mile spin every evening after supper; Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicudy), manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, donned mask, chest protector and catcher's mitt to demonstrate the technique which got him a job as catcher with the Washington Senators...
...main furnaces, for which Franklin Roosevelt signed a $68,500,000 TVA expansion bill last week, Reynolds will get its electricity from TVA. Reynolds Metals called its project "our contribution to national defense," claimed to be aiming for an eventual ingot production of 60,000,000 Ib. a year, which is 20% of that of Alcoa itself...
Aluminum's answers: apart from a 270% increase in 1914-16, and modest 1?increase in 1937, its price record includes cuts in the inflated 1925-29 period, two more cuts since the suit began-the second last week by 1? a Ib. to 18?, the lowest price ever. As for the bauxite monopoly, Alcoa pointed to plenty of uncontrolled low-cost ore in Surinam (Dutch Guiana), high-cost ore in Arkansas. As for national defense, Alcoa pointed to $26,000,000 worth of plant expansion in 1937, $30,000,000 worth last year. As for the ingot monopoly...
...Ponts have contracted to build and operate a $25,000,000, Government-owned powder plant near Charlestown, Ind. Capacity: 200,000 Ib. per day. "This plant will be completed and in operation within ten months. In 1917 the contract for construction of the first powder plant was not signed until seven months after we had entered...