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...Zenith Radio Corporation Chicago...
Typical problems for Sir Kenneth: The June issue of the British Export Gazette contained an advertisement offering all kinds of electric equipment plus copper and aluminum for immediate delivery anywhere. Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp. recently had a cable from Britain offering alnico, an alloy of aluminum, nickel, copper and iron unavailable in the U.S. because of priorities, essential to Zenith's battery sets. In both cases deliveries were stopped by British export control...
Andrew Welch '44 the committee chairman, announced that ticket sales were surpassing all expectations for the Yard's social zenith a week from this evening. "We're amazed," stated Welch...
...uninitiated, who take their skiing vicariously from the movies and the newsreels, jumping is the zenith of competitive skiing. But only about one skier in ten is a jumper. Finns prefer the langlanf -racing on the flat. Precision-minded skiers like the slalom-a tricky obstacle race between pairs of flags set irregularly down a steep hillside. For daredevils with a taste for breakneck speed, slashing turns, there is only one sport on skis: downhill racing-probably the most difficult and dangerous form of skiing competition...
...Washington Monument, McAdoo plucked up courage to propose to Wilson's 24-year-old daughter Eleanor. His wife had died the year before, he was then 50, and already a grandfather. Nevertheless he became Wilson's son-in-law. The war took him to the zenith of his public career: he floated four huge Liberty Loans, took over the rail roads, issued $370,000,000 in emergency currency in three months, ran the Secret Service, helped Senator Carter Glass launch the Federal Reserve System...