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...orders for electrical insulation, rubber aircraft parts, etc.; Connecticut Telephone is producing much field equipment used by the Russians; Ward La France is producing giant rescue trucks for the Army. Result: since 1939 the combination's sales have skyrocketed twentyfold to over $25,000,000, profits have jumped tenfold to over $600,000. Come peace, Stanley Odium (who will join the Air Corps soon) has other plans: concentrate on trucks, get Rubatex to supply the rubber parts, while Connecticut furnishes spark plugs and ignition systems...
...tested family radios were turned on an average of five and a half hours a day. Only about 8% were used for less than an hour daily. Although short-wave tuning increased tenfold, it was still less than 1 % of the total...
China's whole national fabric, corroded by the Japanese attrition, has in the past seven months undergone terrible moral and material shocks. She has found that the Allies, instead of alleviating her position, have increased her immediate difficulties tenfold. She is bewildered by the crushing defeats America and Britain have suffered. Her Burma Road-her so-called lifeline-has been cut. Half the army she sent to Burma may never return. Japan has launched a new attack, designed to conquer her remaining railway lines and perhaps eventually capture Kunming and deliver a death blow...
...Siwash. A Middle West Swarthmore, it is rated one of the best small colleges in the U.S. President Cowling in many ways resembles Swarthmore's former President Frank Aydelotte, a good friend of his. In his 32 years as Carleton's president. Cowling has increased its wealth tenfold (now nearly $8,000,000 in endowment and plant) and created an idyllic little college. In a region where State universities predominate, Carleton (cost: $850 a year) is considered a rich boys' & girls' college, but President Cowling tolerates no swank. His students are forbidden cars, have no fraternities...
...Kildare, he emigrated to Canada at 19, rose from railroad laborer to contractor to utilities magnate by the age of 45, when he organized Montreal Light, Heat & Power Co., now capitalized at $64,000,000. He became president of the Royal Bank of Canada, increased its assets more than tenfold, organized the $100,000,000 Canada Power & Paper Corp., went into textiles, mining, insurance, railways, in his lifetime shared control with his associates of some 250 companies with assets of an estimated two billion dollars...