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Layers of Fat. Ralph Cordiner has always made good use of his time. He was born in 1900 on his father's 1,280-acre wheat farm near Walla Walla, Wash., just eight years after a genial Quaker named Charles A. Coffin merged two electrical firms to found General Electric. Cordiner went to small Whitman College, where he worked his way through school by doing odd jobs and selling wooden-paddle washing machines for the Pacific Power & Light Co. He went to work for Pacific Power after graduation, became such a star salesman that he was soon lured away...
From Wall Street to Walla Walla, the tremendous surge of the U.S. economy was felt across the nation last week. Though the economy still ailed in spots, its recuperative force and obvious vitality showed up so strongly that even the optimistic were taken by surprise...
Oooh-eee-oooh-aah-aah Ting-tang Walla-walla bing-bang...
...Walla, Walla, Wash...
...Deciding that it was "high time to stop subsidizing student wheels," President Chester Maxey of Walla Walla's Whitman College (841 students, some 300 autos) issued an ultimatum: no more financial grants for students who keep cars on campus...