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...breezy, cocksure Father, known to the thousands who read Chicken Every Sunday, has been blown up to book size. Daughter Rosemary admiringly reports how Father sought his pot of gold in the laundry business, a trolley-car line, a railroad, a bank, a dozen other get-rich-quick schemes. One of the few genuine high points is the story of the lady who reserved half the cellar when she rented her house, and went back to live in it during hard times...
Even the big business of pulverizing Aachen could not keep American whittling-fingers from gadgeteering. When Army engineers on the ridge outside the town found seven trolley cars of post-Tooner-ville design, they couldn't resist making their own V-weapon. A car was hauled to the tracks that led down to the city, packed like a Christmas stocking with captured shells, bullets, rockets, dynamite, TNT, hand grenades and ack-ack. On its sides G.I.s daubed a picture of Hitler, "Heil Heel," "Aachen Express...
...bulldozer shove started the old streetcar down the hill toward Aachen. The engineers, watching from the bleachers of the ridge, saw the squeeze play fail: the rocking trolley blew up before it reached the town. Maybe it shook up a few Nazi machine gunners. Well, they had another. The second improved model exploded prematurely, destroying the launching ramp...
...where he left off last year, when he began several weeks leave to examine the craniums of 1500 Army Air Force flyers in an attempt to determine the average Air Force size. Professor Hooton's efforts last year centered in an attempt to find the perfect post-war trolley and subway seat, which he accomplished by measuring the derrieres of several thousand men and women in North Station and calculating the perfect posterior...
Less than ten years ago National Airlines was the Toonerville Trolley of the airways. By last week little N.A.L. (1,087 route miles between New Orleans, Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami and Key West) was ready for big-time commercial aviation, with a brand-new Civil Aeronautics Board license in its pocket. As soon as it can get the planes, National can start regular flights to New York through the prize air-travel territory of Savannah, Wilmington, N.C. and Norfolk. The expansion was financed by increased operating revenues (May's take: $156,000) and a $113,333⅓ stock issue which...