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Rubber could no longer be taken for granted in 1940. Standard Oil and Goodrich built plants to make synthetic rubber (which is no trick) and to make it cheaply and in tonnage (which is). Meanwhile, among hundreds of unsung corporate pioneers, Champion Paper & Fibre made newsprint from Southern pine, and...
France and Italy no longer export vermouth to the U. S. Result: a tremendous boost to the U. S.'s infant vermouth industry. From a production of 164,747 gallons for the year ended June 30, 1937, domestic vermouth output has been trebled this year. With stocks approaching the...
Cutler will meet Captain Frannie Powers in the 220, the feature race of the evening, and will probably try his hand in at least one other event. In the event that there is a 440 on the program, it will be Cutler versus prize Sophomore Bus Curwen and Bob White...
In station wagons and long shining limousines came people in evening clothes, neighbors and friends. Inside they assembled in the long, furniture-cluttered library, chatting quietly or sitting, hands in laps, listening to the radio chattering election returns.
His well-tried masterpiece was a re-enactment of Daniel in the lion's den. The Rev. Mr. Thompson whirled like a dervish, shadowboxed, raced with miniature fury up & down the platform, dropped to his knees to carry on in a high-pitched chant. Down front, the sinners whooped...