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...interested in getting one of these valuable shapes, for which I will swap a priceless circular rectangle from my knothole collection...
...Johns Hopkins' School of Hygiene and Public Health, 150 U.S. vitamin experts got together last week. Sample swap talk: "Anybody buying vitamin E is probably a sucker, since no case of deficiency in an adult has been found . . . But it might be good for Rh babies, and those with diabetic mothers . . . Despite an abundance of sunshine and vitamin D, there is still a lot of rickets in Baltimore...
...head of the shipyards Clay Bedford hit on the idea of building ships in prefabricated sections. At war's end, Bedford went to Willow Run as Kaiser-Frazer's production chief, soon became known as a brilliant "swap guy," chasing all over the U.S. for scarce materials to keep K-F's production lines rolling. When Wilson tapped him for the Office of Defense Mobilization, Bedford had just spent his first night in a new home in Oakland, Calif., where he was to manage K-F's West Coast defense production...
...Granger, in love with Socialite Ruth Roman, wants to rid himself of a faithless wife who is balking at a divorce; Walker would like nothing better than to see his own father dead. Aglow with enthusiasm, Walker proposes that they both commit murder, obliging each other with a friendly swap of victims so that the crimes can be motive-free models of perfection...
...which Sugar Ray makes in any handy church, denomination immaterial. It is a day for not shaving (to keep the skin tough), a day for a tea & toast breakfast-nothing more. It is a day of long minutes in a narrow, chilly dressing room, while a manager and trainer swap yarns to break the tension...