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Election time was 16 long months away, but Republicans as well as Democrats were already beginning to hear the call. Across the nation, in surprising numbers, Republicans were cheerfully spending $100 bills for a platter of chicken and a hard seat at a fund-raising dinner. The California party overflowed Los Angeles' Biltmore Bowl and took in $130,000. At Milwaukee a fortnight ago, the Wisconsin G.O.P. $100-a-plate affair, featuring Senator Robert A. Taft as speaker, drew 2,250 enthusiastic listeners. More dinners were...
EDWARD F. PHELPS JR., 38, OPA veteran and executive vice president of Fort Worth's Waples-Platter Co. (food manufacturing and wholesaling), to be boss of the new commodity divisions to keep tabs on all commodity prices. RICHARD L. BOWDITCH, 50, president of Boston's C. H. Sprague & Son Co. (coal), to be price director for transportation, public utilities, fuel, service, imports & exports. JOSEPH N. KALLICK, 37, OPA veteran and executive of Chicago's Spiegel, Inc. mail-order house, to be price director for consumer soft goods...
...lakes region of central New Hampshire a completely new area has been created at Red Hill in Moultonboro. A 1,5000-foot platter-pull cable lift was constructed here on a 2,000-foot slope...
...Years to Go? The U.S. offer was not held out on a silver platter. Britain, France and the rest of the twelve North Atlantic partners would be told that they were expected, for their part, to start implementing paper plans with men and guns. Actually, there was no longer much argument on what had to be done, except for the vital detail of arming Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS). Jolted from its daydreams by Korea, the West had finally begun to take the steps that should have been taken long before...
When Stanley Sayres drove his platter-like hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV to a world record over a mile straightaway earlier this month (TIME, July 10), veteran motorboatmen were dazzled by the 160 m.p.h. speed, but they took a restrained view of what the delicate Duralumin craft might do in racing competition. Over the bending Detroit River course of the Gold Cup race last week, Slo-Mo-Shun IV proved she was all right at that...