Word: takers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris last week, the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission issued its first two catalogues, which offered to transplanted Americans (and secondly to Europeans) $11,500,000 worth of everything from aspirin to three-ton Diesel cranes. First taker: the Belgian Government, which got 300 automobiles and 125 tons of steel rods...
Made-Work. In Rio de Janeiro, Under taker Manoel Pinto and seven ambulance-chasing competitors raced to the home of a new customer, arrived in a dead heat. Awarded the job, happy Pinto promptly dropped dead...
Against the German weapons were some new U.S. guns and tank-destroyer types still on the secret list, but the basic ground-taker was still the medium Sherman tank, carrying either a 75-mm. gun (outclassed by the 88-mm.) or 105-mm. howitzer. The Allies have nothing of comparable size to the Königstiger, consider such monsters too road-bound to be of great value...
Campus Insolvency? University of Cincinnati's President Raymond Walters, in his current 25th annual report as volunteer census taker and trend-spotter for the nation's colleges,* predicted that dwindling registration will make 1945-46 one of the financially shakiest years in campus memory. His forecast...
Success Story. Knight, who is 50 this week, had come up fast in eleven years. Starting as an ad-taker and reporter, with time out for service in World War I as lieutenant and air observer, he had run two small Ohio papers, finally became managing editor of his father's Akron Beacon-Journal. But until his father died in 1933, no one in Akron noticed much about Cornell-trained Jack Knight except that he was a pleasant fellow with a flair for good clothes and winning at golf. His father's death left the Beacon-Journal with...