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...Stephen Power Parish, 62, moved up from president of Reed Roller Bit Co. to board chairman. A onetime roughneck in the Texas oilfields and a brother of William S. Parish, president of Standard Oil (N.J.) from 1937-42, Steve Parish took over Reed in 1925 when it had some 80 workers and $1,000,000 in assets. He built the company into the world's second largest oil-tool concern (first: Hughes Tool Co.), with assets of $24 million and worldwide markets for its rock bits, rotary joints, drill collars and coring equipment. R. G. Hamaker, formerly vice president...
...summer of 1952, the Communists completed the first new line on the way to Russia, a 314-mile stretch between Chungking and Chengtu (see map). That fall they completed a 216-mile roller coaster across 1,000 bridges and viaducts from Tienshui, terminus of the old main line from the coast, to Lanchow, the heart of the "New Northwest." The Communists are now at work on at least twelve more strategic railroads, more than 4,000 miles long, which will join Russia's Asian network in at least two places. Among them...
Liquid Wallpaper. An embossed paint roller that can decorate walls with wallpaper-like designs was brought out by Sherwin-Williams Co. The plastic roller comes in five patterns must be used with a new Sherwin-Williams paint called Applikay. Roller price...
...Roller Derby...
Another droll touch was added to Fools' Week as six Ponies staged a race on tricycles and roller skates in front of Widener yesterday. With utter disregard for the solemn procession, the police attempted tempted to disperse the fascinated spectators...