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...opened them again and said: "I cannot believe that anyone here believes we can use airships for military purposes in Germany. . . . Now is the time to sell it [helium]. In fifty years there will be no market for helium because there will be no airships. Airplanes will then supplant them...
...seeing animals act. Two years ago some 2,250,000 people flocked to the St. Louis Zoological Park, famed for its animal stunts, to watch two chimpanzees do battle in a boxing ring. This winter St. Louis trainers worked arduously on a new act which they hope will supplant the now-retired fighting apes...
...pugnacious C. I. 0. American Newspaper Guild last week ended the longest strike in its history. Seven months ago the Scripps League Seattle Star hired A. F. of L. teamsters to supplant Guild office workers in its circulation department. That started the strike. After a four-day shutdown, the Star's, presses started up again, managed to get out a paper every day of the strike. Last week's armistice gave neither side the full fruits of victory. Reinstated were 45 editorial and advertising office Guildsmen. Nineteen circulation men, recently ordered reinstated by the National Labor Relations Board...
Professional football will never supplant college games in popularity, Campbell predicted. "The tradition and atmosphere of college games draws the crowds as much as the playing itself," he said...
...side, General Franco formed his own 20-man Junta, modeled on Italy's Fascist Grand Council, to help him rule Spain's Rightist territories and eventually "to supplant the Madrid-Valencia Government." All political parties were outlawed by General Franco except the one under his command, which received this impressive title: The Spanish Phalanx of Traditionalists and Offensive National Syndicalist Juntas...