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...plant in Lockland, near Cincinnati, where it needed 10,000 men to produce 1,000 engines a month, Wright had to start from scratch. While its plant was abuilding, it got the vocational schools of five Ohio towns, including Cincinnati, to set up courses for the specific jobs to be done, and brought out supervisors from its Paterson, N.J. plant to teach them. It also picked up 15 smart young men around Lockland, sent them to Paterson to learn core making. After eight weeks they will return to Lockland to teach others. As it prepares to open its new plant...
...winter at Gimbel's Department Store in Manhattan. To buy it back she spent $295 she had saved to get Wichita Bill a tombstone for his grave. Carefully she cut out and saved the sunrise from the center of the canvas (she thought this part was up to scratch), then took a carving knife and slashed the rest to ribbons...
...Festival of Brazilian Music (Victor; 10 sides; $5.50). First big phonographic collection of works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazil's No. i composer and one of the lustiest living. Beautifully recorded by Soprano Elsie Houston, the Schola Cantorum, conducted by Hugh Ross, a scratch orchestra under Burle Marx. Villa-Lobosities: a Bachiana Brasileira for eight cellos attempting to fuse the spirits of Bach and Brazil; a Nonetto for chorus and small orchestra, purporting to describe Brazil's geography...
...come from some place like the Tennessee back country, most likely, where they still talked about Andy Jackson and the way he cleaned things up in Washington when he was elected. In Tennessee a fellow who didn't own a big spread of buckshot land and had to scratch along in the pines some-where didn't see things just the same way as a Virginia Whig. So Mike Fink was a Democrat...
...yard low hurdles - Won by Captain Donahue (scratch); second, MacKinnon (0.7 sec.); third, Gifford (0.9 sec.). Winning margin...