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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the aid of Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41, Student Council representative for Freshman affairs and himself an ex-Union Committee President, and of Kendrick N. Marshall '21, secretary of the Union and instructor in Government, the 1943 Union Committee will manage informal class dances, sponor talks, stage course reviews before examinations. It also appoints the committees which stage the Yardlings' two big blowouts; the Smoker, annual class stag party, and the Jubilee...
This cheerful sign could not account for the shakiness of stock prices unless July's rate of production already anticipated fall business. Last week General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Chrysler's K. T. Keller (see p. 54) told business something closely approaching this. Said Sloan: "Automobile sales will be fully as good as last year." Said Keller: "The immediate prospect seems to be that business will continue at current levels, or possibly show some improvement " A generous estimate of "some improvement" might put the Federal Reserve index at a fall peak of between...
...Burbank plant soon came Lockheed's first bimotored, all-metal plane, the Electra, a speedy airline job, then the Lockheed 12 and finally the 14, rated in 1937 the fastest multi-engined commercial plane in the world. This year the Lockheed plant turned out the two-engined P-38, one of the world's fastest pursuit ships. Lockheed is now working on a new Electra and the four-engined Excalibur, scheduled for test flight-next summer...
...ships a month, for airlines, corporations, individuals and governments (including Britain, which has ordered 250 Lockheed light bombers). As striking news as any was Lockheed's backlog of unfilled orders: $26,372,385. Fortnight ago this was upped another $4,845,000 by an Army order for P...
...officials, Mr. Klein, who at 37 still looks like Robert Taylor, fixed his fascinating eyes on a girl stenographer. -'You are going to sleep," said he, levelly, (ito sleep, to sleep. . . ." Sure enough, off she went. Mr. Klein turned to another girl-"sleep, sleep, s-l-e-e-p"-and off she went too. Then, magically, he woke them both up. Mr. Klein turned to his auditioners, with a who's-next look. But a horrible thought had communicated itself among them. This s-l-e-e-p stuff. . . . Suppose the radio audience...