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...Government would supply fields for the line. It turned over its stock to Government-controlled Canadian National Railways, thus putting Trans-Canada into the arms of C. N. R.'s President Samuel James Hungerford. Sam Hungerford promptly passed Trans-Canada on to a U. S. expert, stubby, taciturn Philip Gustav Johnson. Mr. Johnson had been making trucks in Seattle, Wash, since 1936, after the 1934 Roosevelt airmail purge with its compulsory reorganizations had thrown him out of the presidency of United Air Lines...
...snowy mountains at Montpelier, Vermont's legislators-mostly Republicans as they have been throughout the New Deal, mostly farmers like their Governor, mostly thrifty taciturn New Englanders-made history: they cheered. They also petitioned Congress 1) to make Secretary Woodring approve the Ompompanoosuc contract, 2) to repeal that section of the Flood Control Act of 1938 which so invades States' rights. Most noteworthy of all, they voted Governor Aiken $67,500 of Vermont's carefully guarded money to fight the case through the U. S. Supreme Court if need...
...play without a score being charged against his team. In ten games with the Bruins, nine of which they won, Rookie Brimsek had permitted only seven goals. But the latest addition to the Bruins was not inflated over his feat of two sets of triple shutouts. To reporters, taciturn Frankie Brimsek announced that the triples he liked most were triple features at the movies...
Cure-All. Clarence William Hazelett is a taciturn man with a small metal works and a large mission. His Hazelett Metals Co. of Greenwich, Conn. licenses a process and sells machinery for making molten metal directly into sheets (instead of rolling sheets from ingots). His mission is promoting the doctrine that all the nation's economic ills can be cured by incentive taxation...
Upstairs, where Charles higher-ups work in offices as cluttered as the back rooms of country stores, President George Ruckdeschel said he was "too low" to discuss the reasons why the store was closing. Low in spirit but not so taciturn was Chairman William A. Charles. Behind his roller-top desk, looking like a baffled and unhappy small-town grocer, this tall, grey-haired, 70-year-old son of the store's founder talked of Charles & Co.'s rise & fall...