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...Casa Cram in Monterrey (largest manufacturing centre in Mexico) distributes hardware and tools for Armstrong Manufacturing Co., Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co., abrasives for Carborundum Co., etc. Its owner: Herr Hans Cram, the Nazi Consul...
...spare many of them for infantry work. But hauling troops by air is no new story to the Army, which has moved outfits before, bag & baggage, just to save time. Until the Army gets more transports, it will have to content itself with moving small outfits, learning how to stow bulky items like 37-mm. anti-tank guns (weight: 950 Ib.) in the planes...
...costing about $200 when attached below the knee, $225 when attached above. They weigh about five pounds, last five or six years. Artificial arms cost from $125 for simple types to $250 for those including movable wrists and hands. Wearers always remove their artificial limbs upon retiring, usually stow them under the bed. They can be donned in two or three minutes. Many wearers attach their stockings with thumbtacks, but manufacturers frown on this, recommend normal garters attached by screws, as is necessary with aluminum legs. Artificial legs have two advantages, according to Manufacturer Joe Spievak who retired as president...
...Stow Whitman of Dartmouth was the first man home followed by George Quinn of New Hampshire and Jim Wallace of the Hanoverians. Henry Marcy was the first Harvard harrier to finish taking fifth spot. He was followed by Hayden Channing in ninth, Roswell Brayton in tenth, BBI Wright in eleventh, Charley Worth in twelfth, and John Erhard in thirteenth...
Unluckily for Chris's simple Q.E.D., Anne's true love landed just after Chris had sailed. The letter that told him what she had not been able to met him in Manhattan, made him jump ship there and stow away on the first liner he could find. His will to get back to Anne was strong enough to survive a shipwreck in mid-Atlantic, but not omnipotent enough to keep his wife from running away with a more compelling...