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Readers who tried to solve the block-counting questions had an impossible task. Somewhere in the process of publication you have deleted a line from one pile of blocks and added a line to the other, making the blocks in each pile of unequal size...
...getting rid of such production frills which add nothing to car performance (and may save car buyers dollars eventually), Browning hopes to pile up savings of $20 million, based on a "normal" million car year (slightly more than current production: 3,800 units per day). Only a shift into high-gear production could make up the rest...
Through the long, exhausting war years the General went home in the evenings, too tired even to talk. She saw to it that he had plenty of relaxing books to read ("my husband [goes] through a pile of books with the avidity of a swarm of locusts . . ."). Once he was in bed, she answered his phone calls all through the night. Usually the calls came from enthusiastic civilians who could hardly wait to tell the General about their brand-new scheme for destroying enemy tanks, etc. But once, at 3 a.m., when Mrs. Marshall had patiently insisted that...
FERD NADHERNY is a 210-pound pile-driver who can pick up those important yards in the clutches. He revealed a now ability last week against Princeton when he snagged a 52-yard pass from Furse and went...
...Kelly had held Chicago in his ham-handed fist for a dozen years. But last week his grip was so flabby that the Democrats lost, besides four Congressmen, two key county officers. The city simply could not pile up the plurality to outweigh the Republican suburbs in Cook County. With a Republican treasurer and Republican sheriff handing out Republican patronage, next April might well see a Republican in City Hall...