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With peace, the Olins branched out into such products as rollerskates, flashlights and skeet traps. The newest product: a tiny battery not much bigger than a penny, for. miniature radios and hearing aids. Brother John figures that the new Cellophane plant will add some $15 million a year to Olin Industries' gross. Said he, with feeling: "We look forward with real enthusiasm to Cellophane...
...sport of shooting clay pigeons undergoes a nation-wide revival, even Harvard has "gone skeet." In fact it has "been skeet" ever since...
Since that year a small student group--comprising the Harvard Skeet Team--has been traveling at least once a week to the Mayflower Skeet Club in Holliston to pop away at the pigeons...
...team even boasts a coach, Dick Shaughnessey, known to some as the Izaak Walton of skeet shooting. Under Shaughnessey last spring, the team shot its way to a second in the National Telegraphic Intercollegiates...
Tongg, a crack skeet-shooter, had taken only a few potshots at established island businesses. But in 1946, he aimed deliberately at thriving, island-hopping Hawaiian Airlines (TIME, June 21). With four DC-35 he started unscheduled Trans-Pacific Airlines, which flew regularly enough to haul 10,000 inter-island passengers a month during the first year. By 1947, Ruddy managed to gross $103,000 and net $35,000 in one month. That was too much for Hawaiian Air. It got an injunction to keep Ruddy from flying on schedules; Ruddy's business dropped...