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...point in Chicago upon learning that burglars had ransacked her country house in Libertyville. Among the stolen items: a big polar-bear skin, stationery, a 300-lb. safe (empty). A couple of days later the phantoms struck again, but took nothing. Next night somebody tried to pry open the trunk of Ellen's car, parked in the estate's driveway. Now infuriated to the vaporization point, Mrs. Stevenson fired off to local newspapers a press release that conjured up a vision of a pioneer woman patroling her homestead veranda with a shootin' iron. Her unsentimental sentiments: "Effective...
...need for federal subsidies to keep flying. But CAB thinks that the airlines underrate their strength, and points to the industry's own skyrocketing growth. In 1951 every U.S. carrier, both big and little, was on Government subsidy. Today only the smaller feeder lines and a few shaky trunk lines need a direct Government handout. Though they still earn heavy mail pay, all nine of the biggest carriers (American, Eastern, United, T.W.A., National, Northwest, Capital. Delta, Western) are self-supporting on their domestic runs. Overall estimates are that the industry will tot up a net operating profit...
LIKE all the other muscles of the human body, the heart muscle itself requires freshly oxygenated blood to live. It gets its supply from the coronary arteries, which sprout from the trunk of the arterial tree, the aorta, and divide into hundreds of smaller branches to feed back into the heart muscle some of the arterial blood that the heart has just previously pumped...
...Williams and Bridgeport Brass Co.'s President Herman W. Steinkraus. Wearing white smocks, the two bore down on a 12-ft.-by-8-ft. white fiberboard elephant, proceeded to dab the elephant with pink paint. Then, some 550 Bridgeport Brass employees filed past, finished painting the elephant from trunk to tail...
...elephant heaves up a trunk as thick as a small tree, curls it back as delicately as a debutante's pinky, and with exquisite precision wipes a bit of foreign matter...