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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Kay ("Jack") Christmas, whom Army Ordnance rates tops among U.S. tank experts. No West Pointer, Jack Christmas is a mechanical engineer (Lafayette College) who got interested in tanks while he was an artilleryman in France during World War I. From tank testing at the Army's Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground, last week he was shifted to Washington, given charge of a new Ordnance section. The new section's province: tanks, other armored vehicles, and the all-important development of self-propelled "tank chasers" (mobile artillery which travels in constant readiness to fire from wheeled mounts...
...Harry Merrill Murdock of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Md. declared that U.S. citizens suffer from "great nervous stress [from] . . . so many terrifying alarms." In Germany, he continued, "control of neurosis has been attained. . . . Everyone has something to do and it is plain to him that what he is doing is a definite stride toward the goal he desires...
Franklin N. Cunningham, Gloucester, Mass,; Charles D. Davol Jr., Fall River, Mass.; John Driscoll, West Roxbury, Mass,; Alexander R. Early Jr., Baltimore, Md.; Richard B. Fellows, Salem, Mass...
CHARLES S. GARLAND Chairman, Amateur Rule Committee United States Lawn Tennis Association Baltimore, Md...
Beauty prizes for the handsomest U.S. bridges built last year were distributed last week by the American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc. The prize for the loveliest bridge costing over $1,000,000 went to the Susquehanna River Bridge (see cut) between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Md. Winners in this class have often been spiderwebby suspension bridges, but no large suspension bridges were completed in the U.S. in 1940. In fact the only suspension bridge to win a prize was in the smallest class (under $250,000), the Klamath River Bridge at Orleans, in Humboldt County, Calif. Other winners...