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...sister?" "She's been in the Reform School a couple of years." "Well, that just leaves you and your brother. Where's he?". "He's at Harvard." "What, you mean your brother is in college?" What's he studying?" "Oh, he ain't studying nothing. They're studying him." --Youngstown Dally Vindicator...
Astatic Microphone Laboratory, Inc. (of Youngstown, Ohio) was puzzled when Du Pont gave it orders, with a high Government priority, for numbers of sensitive phonograph pickups. Astatic Microphone was still more surprised to find out that Du Pont engineers were putting the phonograph needles not on phonograph records but against factory fences, relaying the wires' vibrations to amplifiers. So Asiatic's engineers redesigned their pickups to make them more compact and weatherproof. Du Pont last fortnight announced the result: fences (equipped with five pickups to the mile) which can catch a wren's song or the sighing...
...expected that at least a third of 1942's brides will be soldiers' girls. Other source of the boom is high-paying, steady employment in industrial centers. Defense-job weddings showed the greatest increase in Cincinnati (51%), Baltimore, San Diego (47%), Dayton (42%), Bridgeport (21%), Youngstown and Akron (17%), Detroit...
Last week, in Ohio, CAPsters air-patrolled two gas mains which supply nitroglycerine plants, air-guarded a reservoir near Youngstown. CAP enrollments had reached 15,000, were coming in at the rate of 800 a day. A "wing commander" had been appointed in every State. CAP said it could use some 100,000 non-flying recruits: as ground crews, as drivers to taxi Army pilots from railroad stations to airports, in humdrum but necessary office work...
Coal & Steel. The strike was called only in "captive"† mines owned by U.S. Steel, Weirton, Bethlehem, Republic, Wheeling, Crucible, Youngstown. But from those seven companies flows over 80% of the nation's defense steel. Without coal they cannot make steel. For coal, they are dependent on their captive mines...