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...Georgia-Pacific Corp., No. 2 plywood producer (after U.S. Plywood), recently broke ground for a $20 million pulp and paper mill at Toledo, Ore. Georgia-Pacific President Owen Cheatham, who has increased the company's timber reserves and cutting rights 1,000% since 1953, explained: "We aim to parlay the $900,000 worth of wood chips we sell to paper companies each year into a $10 million paper business...
...future, Dr. Sabin foresaw a day when babies will have their throats swabbed with his vaccine before they are six months old, while they are still protected by inherited antibodies. Or, others sug gest, people of any age could get tem porary immunity from a single Salk shot then parlay it into virtual lifetime immunity with a Sabin swab...
...last week, Alf gave the clubhouse punters three successive winners: Elladora, a 6-to-1 shot; Grand Statute, a 10-to-1 surprise; and Running Water, a 3-to-1 stake racer that survived a tough stretch battle and a foul claim to take the purse. A ?1 ($2.80) parlay on the three paid $862.40. It was almost too much for one conservative gentleman. "From now on," said he, as he tried to revive himself in the bar, "I'm in favor of coexistence...
...coming tennis amateur needs is a taste for the right clothes, a talent for cocktail-party chatter and a superior knack for belting tennis balls. It is no trick at all to parlay such gifts into a year-round, expenses-paid vacation-wives and kids included. But many young players are not satisfied with such mild rewards. After he won the U.S. singles title in the summer of 1953, crew-cut Tournament Traveler Tony Trabert announced his intentions: for another season or so he would make a name for himself in amateur tennis; then he would be open to offers...
...cactus) in 1945. Allen is the man who gave the final go-ahead for Boeing to spend $20 million on the 707, gambling that he could sell it to the Air Force and the airlines. With Air Force orders in the offing, Bill Allen has apparently won half his parlay. If he wins the second half, he will crack the transport field wide open. The big question is: Will U.S. airlines...