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...portable, one-man weapon that fires a whopping 4.5-inch, three-foot-long projectile was described by the Army last week. It is the M-12, a bazooka-like rocket launcher consisting of a factory-loaded plastic tube and tripod, weighing 35 Ibs. in all. A one-shot piece designed for close-range use, it is fired by dry-cell batteries, is replaced forthwith by a new barrel; the empty goes to the rear for a new loading. By a wire hookup, several M-12s can be fired at once by the same gunner...
...One-man government must be ended in the United States of America. Our Republican nominee, Governor Dewey, must win, and to that all-important and vital task the friends of Harold Stassen in Minnesota and elsewhere will give from now on everything they have...
...Portland, his poise unruffled by the morning's train crash, he had lashed out against "the danger of one-man government...
...Morgue was afraid the statuette of himself might be sold over the counter for 50?, along with little images of Buffalo Bill and George Washington. President Roosevelt took one look at the result and cried: "Wait a minute. I don't wear a waistcoat." Through it all, diminutive, agile, 53-year-old Sculptor Max Kalish preserved speed and competence. He was engaged in one of the most spectacular one-man sculpture marathons ever undertaken: the modeling of some 50 statues of U.S. war leaders in sittings of one hour per subject. Last week the exhausting work was nearly finished...
Retailers, who make up more than half of all businesses, accounted for more than half of all the closings. Construction and service businesses were next with a 36% shrinkage. In most cases the defunct enterprises were strictly one-man affairs: of the 147,000 retailers who shut up shop last year, only 9,000 employed three or more people, only 200 had more than 50 employees. The big shrinkage in one-man enterprises was mainly due to the fact that many proprietors were drafted or could make more in war plants than behind their counters. Most significant...