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Members of the independent railroad brotherhoods-which were well established unions when A.F. of L. was a pup and C.I.O. unborn-are no young radicals. Under the brotherhoods' own seniority rules, railroading is no longer a young man's game; the ranks of the nation's engineers, firemen and conductors are full of wise old grey heads, and the shrinking number of railroad jobs has kept youngsters from joining their ranks...
Alcoa. In Philadelphia, shortage-harassed metalmen tried to key their Metal Show to the dear unborn days when they can turn from production to sales. Biggest display was by Aluminum Co. of America, now so pressed for production that most of its exhibits were small pieces of aluminum finishes, not actual finished products...
After Sisowath's body died, Cambodian priests treated it with secret essences to preserve its outer flesh, removed all its internal organs except its heart and brain. Then they folded the body into an urn in the curled position of an unborn child, symbolizing preparation for rebirth somewhere, sometime...
...spring day last year, a young woman walked into the clinic of the Boston Lying-in Hospital. She had the "profile," said Dr. Robert Northwall Rutherford, of a woman five months' pregnant. Proudly she told the doctor about the lively kickings of her unborn child, which her husband had also noticed...
...been playing big-time tennis for 28 years-18 as an amateur, then as a pro. Now, after spending three of the past four years barnstorming around Europe, the Old Master is reappearing on a cross-country U. S. tour, playing opposite Don Budge, who was still unborn when Tilden won his first national (mixed doubles) championship. Last week the Old Master's legs were slow, his timing not so good, but to an admiring gallery he proved that he still has a few aces up his sleeve, showed flashes of bygone brilliance before losing the match...