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...Hills of Home. The fields between New England's stone walls were still lush and green. The salt smell of the sea still blew in from every coast. Highways still boasted their gaudy billboards; they ran past barns painted with baking powder ads and signposts cluttered with the weathered, cardboard portraits of political candidates. In the South the cotton was waisthigh. Beneath the northern border the wheatlands were bright with yellow stubble. The Western ranges with their white-faced cattle were sere again with the late summer heat. Sidetracked freight cars still bore the familiar slogans on their...
Last week, 25 years later and $10 million richer, Lewis Ruskin was well on his way. He wound up a deal that made him one of the top powder-&-perfume men in the U.S. The deal: a 30-year contract with the Evelyn Westall Co. of New York (White Shoulders, Menace and Gay Diversion perfumes). For the "world sales rights" (virtual ownership), Ruskin will pay Westall $600,000, promises to buy $30 million worth of goods from the company during the next 30 years. From his new eminence, he curled a lip at the big names in perfumery, said...
...Right Way. Short, balding Robert Young is trying hard to become the biggest U.S. railroad tycoon since the Union Pacific's Edward Henry Harriman. Born in Texas, he worked in a Du Pont powder mill at 22½? an hour a short 20 years ago. Now he has a fortune of $7,000,000 and a show place in Newport. His admirers refer to him as "the emperor." (In the library of his Newport home hangs the David portrait of Napoleon...
...your July 23 issue you say a Fort Benning corporal "picked up a 57-mm. cannon . . . aimed it as casually as a shotgun . . . demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away." Secret of the kickless cannon: a backward powder blast through the breach-"a fiery column 12 to 15 ft. long, about 4 ft. in diameter...
...Weapon. TNT is barely twice as strong as black powder was six centuries ago. World War II developed explosives up to 60% more powerful than TNT. The atomic bomb is more than 12,000 times as strong as the best improvement on TNT. One hundred and twenty-three planes, each bearing a single atomic bomb, would carry as much destructive power as all the bombs (2,453,595 tons) dropped by the Allies on Europe during...