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...which made $34,500,000 in 1937, is not only one of the few U. S. railroads in the black but is the only profitable woof left in the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen railroad and real-estate empire's tangled warp. C. & O. is controlled by Chesapeake Corp., a holding company which owns 35% of its common stock. Chesapeake Corp. in turn is controlled by Alleghany Corp., another holding company which owns 71% of its stock. Last year, after the Vans had died, the chief backer of their declining years, Glass Tycoon George A. Ball, sold...
...average man that a work of art is not something conceived on Olympus but is produced by people very much like himself." As an exposition of The World of Tomorrow, Mr. Whalen explained, the Fair would be devoted to functional art, "woven into the very warp and woof" of avenues and buildings. "Instead of a few hundred thousand people seeing the old masters isolated in one building," he proclaimed, "50,000,000 visitors will find art all around them-to the right, to the left and even underfoot...
...their summer home at Seal Harbor, Me. It took three years of intermittent stitching for Mrs." Zorach to finish it. "The difficult thing," she explained last week, "is to get the right sort of linen for them. It must be loosely woven, but strong, and the warp and woof must be even. The wools are not so hard. I used to get mine from an old man down in Greenwich Village. I think he was a fence for stolen goods. . . . Sometimes I dye them myself and sometimes I take already dyed wools and re-dye them. I have some wonderful...
...Nothing to do. I swear I make a trap to catch anything. First I figure and figure. Then I improve and improve. All 100% humane traps. No one gets hurt. The animals, they like it. They sit there inside, nice and quiet, and look out. Only the coon, he woof at you when you come. They go in my traps. I guarantee...
...morals of less puritanical Cantabridgians. Since they have demonstrated that they intend to leave no stone unturned to keep the collective Cambridge Mind free from hampering vulgarity, whether it will or no, it is only fitting that new menaces, insidiously working their way into the very warp and woof of Cambridge life, which, in their manifold duties they have probably overlooked, be pointed out to them...