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...biggest merger in U.S. aviation history last week got off to a fast start. Not a minnow, but a pickerel of an industry began to swallow a whale. Vultee Aircraft, Inc. announced that it would buy the 440,000 shares of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. common stock now held or controlled by Consolidated's president, Major Reuben Fleet (TIME, Nov. 17). The price: $10,945,000, equal to $24.88 a share and less than 50? below the stock's alltime high. After formal contract signing in Consolidated's huge San Diego plant, Vultee's President Richard...
There are a few other Sophs you might tab, such as the picket-runners Billings, Tobin and Messer, and the running guard, "Spike" Sisson, and Bud Cushing, a whale of a center as Syracuse will attest, and the big tackle, Anderson. But I'm just about running to the end of my list...
...fighter (Robert Sterling) who wants to get into a business that smells good (groceries) and a manager (George Murphy) who makes him fight until he goes blind. It would not be much of a picture without Maisie (Ann Sothern), the Brooklyn Bonfire with a heart as big as a whale. Maisie makes...
...fourth year of war rolled to a close on July 7, it found Japan this week still fighting, still strong-but taut, unhappy, sour. Much changed is war-weary Japan. Rice is rationed. Meatless days are a patriotic duty-only blubbery whale meat is on the free list. The production of warming sake (rice wine) is discouraged. Sugar has been replaced by long-forbidden saccharin in many commercial foods. Bitterest of all to the nervous, twitching Japanese is the shortage of cigarets...
...PERENNIAL BOARDER - Phoebe Atwood Taylor - Norton ($2). Olive Beadle, shot in Ye Olde Whale caravansary on Cape Cod, gives Asey Mayo a rare bit of homespun detecting to do. Asey's grammar gets worse as his sleuthing gets better...