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Naughty Word. Mosconi and Crane are unmistakably in earnest about their rivalry. But they both work for the same boss, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., largest U.S. manufacturers of billiard and bowling equipment. Brunswick, which has done a lot to make bowling respectable, is now out to do as much for pool. Brunswick is well aware that many of the nation's 32,000 pool halls are only fronts; they are often gambling and bookie joints, or at best, no place for a lady. B-B-C employees are fined $1 every time they say "pool"; they must...
Only seven* nations spend as little as 10% of their budgets for armaments. China contains the largest armies, but many on both the Nationalist and the Communist sides are not organized. Russia has the largest ground force (3,800,000). In spite (or because) of the fact that it is the strongest power, the U.S. gets along with a ground force...
...week. Foreign Minister Molotov's note to Washington on Korea broke a long deadlock that had made the 38th parallel across Korea the most opaque of all the curtains between the Russian sphere and the rest of the world. It also meant that the world's 13th largest nation could move a step toward the independence it had not known for 40 years and toward the democracy it had never known...
Posterity Is Here. Whether the U.S. intended it or not, it now has the world's largest library. And so long as it receives by law two copies of every book copyrighted in the U.S., it will continue to swell. The library began (in 1789) with a Congressman's modest proposal that a committee draw up and price a "catalogue of books" for his colleagues' handy reference. A little more than a century later only the Librarian himself knew how to find the one million ill-catalogued books, and accounts were short $30,000 because a stack...
Died. Harry Gordon Selfridge, 90, Wisconsin-born merchant prince who built London's largest department store; of pneumonia; in London. Retiring at 46 after piling up a fortune with Chicago's Marshall Field & Co., Selfridge took a trip to London, was shocked by staid British selling methods, opened the store on Oxford Street that grew rich and famous through high-pressure advertising...