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...Covington, Ky., Mrs. Robert G. Davis, 24, had been in an iron lung for 24 hours when she gave birth to a healthy, 5 lb. 4 oz. girl. For final delivery the lung was opened, and the motor shut off, for only 15 seconds. Mrs. Davis' condition was obstetrically good but she was still gravely ill from polio...
...petitioners asked some probing questions. Why had "motor cars" been bought for Irving's personal use? Why, in one 14-month period, had Roy E. Livingston, union treasurer, been paid $4,400 and Irving $3,800 for "overtime"? Why, in approximately the same period, had $16,762 been paid to "cash" without accounting? Why had the union's bank balance dropped by $37,000 in five months...
...famous motor race track at Le Mans, France, sleek-bonneted speedsters screeched around the turns and thundered down the straightways in the most grueling sport-car endurance race on the speedway calendar. Plugging along at 70 m.p.h. -and letting other models slip past at better speeds-was a 1948 British Aston-Martin coupe. Its two-man crew, a couple of middle-aged English amateurs, were there just to prove that "any British family man who drives with care . . . can give these continental chaps a run for their money...
...When one motor of their chartered twin-engine Lockheed conked out 60 miles from Columbus, Ohio, Vice President Alben Berkley and a planeload of Washington brass, including Attorney General Tom Clarlc, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson, and Air Secretary Stuart Symington, made a safe emergency landing. After an hour's delay at Columbus, they commandeered a Navy plane and took off for St. Louis to keep a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner date. Next day the Veep flew on to Los Angeles in a regular commercial airliner...
...whose profits had been nipped by the recession were finding some consolation around the bargaining table. The powerful C.I.O. Textile Workers Union reluctantly decided not to ask for wage increases for its 120,000 members in the cotton-rayon industry when the present contracts expire in September. The Ford Motor Co. also decided the time had come for plain talking. It turned down the U.A.W.'s wage and pension demands and proposed freezing wages for 18 months. Said Ford's Bargainer John S. Bugas: "It would be utter folly to take any action which would increase the price...