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...respectively, vice president, executive vice president and president of G.M. at almost the same time as Charles E. (for Edward) Wilson won similar posts at G.E. When Charles Edward Wilson moved into his present home at No. 7 Hampton Road, Scarsdale, N.Y., Charles Eben Wilson, vice president of Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp., had just moved out of No. 7 Old Army Road, Scarsdale. To add to the confusion, G.E. also has an engineer named Charles Edward Wilson. Last week G.M.'s Charles Erwin Wilson reported that three Detroit friends had urged him not to quit...
...last week at Vandalia, Ohio. In 45 years there have been no repeat winners of the national amateur championship, no women victors. The Grand American Handicap* was captured by Leslie Jepsen, a sparse-haired, thin, nervous electrician from Dwight, Ill. He toed the mark at 19 yards with a pump gun borrowed from a neighbor at home (he broke his own two years ago) and hit 97 clay birds out of 100. His prize...
Estimates of the cost of all this ranged from $750,000,000 to a round billion. But no one blinked. The bill was not only a bow to those who fight. It also constituted an approach to postwar pump-priming, a system of preparing in advance against depression...
...house) is a steel pipe 18 inches long and four to six inches in diameter (four inches for a four-room house, six inches for eight rooms). It has a feeder which pushes coal in at one end and ashes out at the other, a water jacket, a small pump which circulates the heated water rapidly to radiators. (The unit can also be adapted to hot air or steam.) In its tiny fire bed, coal burns much faster than in" previous furnaces, but so efficiently that the burner produces 40% more heat per unit of coal...
...this is by way of preamble to an accusation that the Pearl Harbor correspondents write tripe and lies and kill Pacific stories before the truth can get out. Correspondents in Pearl Harbor, writing from a ten-line communique and feeling a terrible compulsion to produce prose, pump their stories full of pure fancy and balderdash. Because they must write something and know no better, they begin each battle in triumph and write it off to a victorious finish by the second...