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...carry freight cars by water. Using specially designed ramp-loaded ships, the company plans to drive trailers on board at a Southern port, steam them north at 20-knot speeds, where waiting trucks would take them to inland customers. Each ship would make six round trips monthly between Wilmington, N.C. and Northern ports with 240 trailers each trip...
...church camp for children. The Church called them into farther fields. Gresham went to Washington, D.C., to Port Arthur, Texas, and then to the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas. Bill went to Birmingham, and three years ago became rector of St. Andrew's Church in Wilmington...
...Horace, pursuing high aims at high altitudes, bigamy is a mere narrow-minded epithet, and the feelings of his Wilmington wife (Martha Scott), on hearing the Philadelphia story, are to be placated by friendly words and a few flowers. Necessarily, there are bourgeois complications. Yet, as played with gusto by Burgess Meredith, Mr. Pennypacker is no less a devoted family man for having one family too many, and no less a man of principle for having principles all his own. The whole play is geared to the level of farce; but though the level is sustained, the leverage falters...
...period comedy laid in Wilmington, Del. in 1890, it concerns a middle-class father of eight with advanced views. Horace Pennypacker is a freethinker who wears knickerbockers rather than trou sers, and belongs to societies espousing Darwin and dedicated to persuading Bernard Shaw to visit America. He also, it soon transpires, is the father of nine children by a different wife in Philadelphia...
...appliance dealer in Wilmington, Del., Phil Klein, 43, sells plenty of General Electric products. Looking at his fine record of orders last month, G.E.'s supply company decided to honor Star Salesman Klein; it gave him a free five-day trip to Havana. Five days later, another G.E. division took a look at Dealer Klein. The Small Appliances Division discovered that Klein was pushing sales by whacking 20% off "fair trade" minimum prices; it promptly got a court injunction to stop him from such selling. Confused by the pat from G.E.'s right hand and the slap from...