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...snow-covered airport at Stratford, Conn. last week thundered a sleek, fat-bodied Navy Monoplane fighter with strange bent wings, not unlike a Junkers Stuka's. WPAsters working on the field's new runways gave it scarcely a glance, because it was an old sight. Almost every day for weeks past the new F4U had been rolled out of the Vought-Sikorsky plant across the road, had throbbed, roared, leaped into the air, whisked out of sight...
Genial, 70-year-old ex-Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings invited 40 of his cronies as usual to play in the 16th annual Homer S. Cummings Golf Tournament at Pinehurst, N. C., then beat the lot for the second successive year. Prepared for this contingency, Champion Cummings got sleek, smart little onetime Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, ex-Ambassador to Belgium and to Russia, now assistant at the State Department, to present him with his own trophy...
...DeLand, Kissimmee, Tampa, they went aboard to see the candidates for their favor: four heifers, one choice feed steer, one medium steer, one scrub steer, three dairy cattle, one big black Poland-China sow, eight pigs. Except for the scrub steer (brought along as a horrible example), all were sleek, handsome, groomed within an inch of their lives. Sharing their train were exhibits of various grasses, seed corn, peanuts, fencing methods ("Keep Ferdinand a Sissy with a Strong Fence"), poultry charts, pine seedlings, pruning tools, turpentining operations. While a sound truck played hillbilly music near the tracks, thousands of Florida...
...country, hitherto a TACA demesne. Pan Am immediately formed Aerovias de Guatemala, put big, heavyset, American-born Alfred Denby in charge. Fortune-hunter Denby owns Guatemala's biggest butcher shop, rates high with General Ubico. This month Aerovias, which has been conducting survey flights with sleek Pan Am Douglas DC25, will begin competing with TACA's rebuilt, cratish "Tin Geese" (trimotored Fords...
Lloyd's insurance underwriters set the prime example of "Big Business as usual" last week. The 200 sleek, well-dressed underwriters and their 5,000 employes had moved down 60 feet into a $200,000 steel & Concrete sub-basement under Lloyd's which was used until break of war for storing records. In this huge and bustling shelter a barbershop, quick-lunch counter, tobacco stand and theatre-ticket bureau functioned busily...