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Disputing Governor Wills's claim that Willkie is the outstanding Republican candidate, Hamilton reported that Republican leaders he has talked with "recently believe that the party has a "wealth of good Presidential timber." But the news of the G.O.P. National Committee meeting in Chicago last week was that the race is now clearly between Willkie and Dewey. True, they might still kill each other off, as Wood and Lowden did at Chicago in 1920. And the prospect of a repetition of that tragic convention hung smokily over the nation and the party. But for the moment, Dewey and Willkie...
...team's most famous act sprang out of Jimmy's reading of an advertisement by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. It said: "Almost everyone has been induced to believe that this country is confronted by an acute shortage of timber. This is not true. . . . Wood built America. Without wood there could have been no America. . . . Wood built the homes . . . churches . . . stockades . . . corncribs . . . WOOD ENDURES . . . Wood is friendly, wood is economical...
This inspired Jimmy to develop a highly philosophical scene which began with Jackson casually remarking that Jimmy was a blockhead. Jimmy at once protested, "You paid me a compliment when you said my head was made of wood," and launched into a lecture on the virtues of timber. As this reached religious heat, the other members of the team, thoroughly sold on wood, joined Durante in a search for samples. They proceeded to a methodical separation of the nightclub, snatched violins from the orchestra, went backstage and to the kitchen for mixing bowls and stepladders. Gradually they covered the dance...
Tough Town. Small, sleepy Gorodok was one of the keys to Vitebsk. All through the summer the Germans fortified its approaches with steel, timber, concrete. They buried old tanks, to serve as pill boxes. They strung out miles of barbed wire, sowed the swamps with mines. They had hoped to stay in Gorodok a long, long time: the dugouts were large; the officers' quarters had hardwood floors...
...possibility. It approved construction of a $4,000,000 alumina refinery plant at Salem, Ore., by another infant, Columbia Metals Corp. The new member of the family is fathered by such West Coast bigwigs as Boeing President Philip Johnson, President Eric Johnston of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Weyerhauser Timber Company's Norton Clapp. The plant, to be built with DPC cash, will produce alumina from the West Coast's vast beds of clay. It will be the first plant in the U.S. to use this process...