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...profits. Out with their annual reports were Cessna Aircraft Co. and Beech Aircraft Corp.-both reporting for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30. Both companies are small, smart and fast-growing; both specialize in plywood, twin-engined training planes; both have recently gone into gliders; both have factories in Wichita, Kans. Yet their earnings were as different as down...
...fact of the matter is that both the strange and ancient names are as familiar to corn-fed Ike Eisenhower as Wichita and John Brown. To the student of military history that he is, Hannibal is an open textbook. To Lieut. General Eisenhower, who for months had been poring over maps, even Tizi-Ouzou is well known...
Five rent-control cases, which went into special three-judge Federal courts because they involved constitutionality, have been fought through successfully by tough little Talbot Smith, OPA rent lawyer. Two of these cases were in South Bend, two in Mobile, one in Wichita-but though widely separated on the map, all the cases were curiously alike in their defense-arguing that the act delegated legislative powers to a Governmental agency which should be exercised specifically by Congress. OPA's Lawyer Brunson MacChesney, chief of the compliance section, thinks the similarity no coincidence, believes there exists an organized resistance...
...John Carroll is a hairy-chested man with the saltiest vocabulary in Columbia County, N.Y. Born in a railroad car in Wichita-his father was trekking to California to settle as a cattle rancher-Painter Carroll studied for a spell at San Francisco's old Mark Hopkins Art Academy, finished two years of an engineering course at the University of California (playing fullback on the football team). On the side he punched cattle. After six months in a Cincinnati art school he joined the Navy in World...
...Wichita, Kans., two ambitious boys sold a filling-station attendant a rubber garden hose loaded with lead, received the rubber-salvage price of 1? per Ib. for their weighted goods. Their salvage price for lead itself would have been...