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This week Collector Hill published his glorified football album. Football Thru the Years (Gridiron Publishing Co.; $2.50) depicts the history of U. S. football-from Rugby's Bigside and Eton's Wall Game (British-born ancestors of U. S. football), through the white-canvas-shod, stocking-capped era...
First to introduce streamliners to the South with the Rebels (New Orleans to Jackson, Tenn.), he went competitors one better by stocking his streamliners with smart, good-looking college girls - the U. S.'s first train hostesses. Scheduled to pay for themselves in seven and a half years, the...
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. is well under way on its $10,400,000 contract, let in February 1939, for four Maritime Commission cargo ships for American Export Lines. In the yard at Decatur an estimated $1,000,000 worth of river craft were last week building. But the big feather in...
Young Mr. Smith (he will get his M. D. next year) conceived the idea of slipping the severed ends of a blood vessel over a slender rod from opposite directions and sewing them where they met. The rod, like a darning egg inside a torn stocking, makes sewing easy. Of...
What helped the price war along was the action of Nylonmaker E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. in canceling minimum wholesale prices on the hose. Warned by recent U. S. Supreme Court rulings against Ethyl Gasoline Corp. and against twelve oil companies for fixing prices, Du Pont went further...