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Automatic pilots are in common use in such large, slow-reacting airplanes as airliners and bombers, but none of the conventional models was alert enough to fly a jet fighter. None was small enough either. A jet fighter is practically "solid"; it is hard to find a vacant cubic inch to stow additional equipment...
...Senate, egg-bald, ulcer-plagued little Jake Arvey made good his threat to resign as boss of the Cook County Democratic organization. He did it, he said, "for reasons of health." To make him feel better, Democratic leaders promised him the job of Illinois National Committeeman, which has been vacant since Boss Ed Kelly died...
...answer to Barrow's problem when he arrived in the newly built paper town in 1945. Marathon's population was nearly 80% Protestant but no single denomination was large enough to support itself. Anglican Barrow started holding services in the paper mill's cookhouse, in a vacant barn or any other sizable shelter. In two years Barrow and his Protestant congregation had built their own church...
...Administration also filled a tough job left vacant by another departing friend of Louis Johnson. As new chairman of the federal Munitions Board, the President appointed Businessman John D. Small of New York, an Annapolis graduate ('15) who formerly headed the Civilian Production Administration after World...
...would become a professor of Government here, presumably filling the post left vacant when Benjamin F. Wright was chosen president of Smith...