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...even Paul Bunyan himself could not do without Johnny Inkslinger, the master figurer who kept a piece of rubber as big as a barrel on the end of his nose. With three shakes of his head, Johnny Inkslinger could wipe a page clean of figures. Last week Henry Kaiser tried the same vast trick...
...When I'm sittin' on a hot griddle and my pants get hot, I get off before I get burned." With this cracker-barrel observation, North American Aviation's President James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger last week announced that production of the Navion, North American's entry in the light-plane market, had been abandoned...
Blinking and snarling in the glare of publicity, the American Communist Party put in a miserable week. The House Un-American Activities Committee was holding hearings on a bill to outlaw the Communists lock, stock & barrel...
...divided up, began feeling their way back down the tunnel. When they reached the entrance to a drift called Main West they knew what had happened. Somewhere, far down Main West's four-mile bore, gas or coal dust had exploded, like powder going off in a gun barrel. And almost all of the mine's 142-man day shift was inside. Retching and staggering, some of the explorers tried to get in. One of them dropped and died before they were forced back. Finally, hardly able to walk, they made it back to the elevator, rode...
...Daingerfield, Tex. (pop. 1,700) the townsfolk were as excited as if a 10,000-barrel gusher had just blown in. But this time the excitement was not over oil. It was over steel-the $24,000,000 Lone Star Steel Co. blast furnace and plant which the Government had built during the war, right next to Texas' vast iron-ore deposits. It was the first-and only-blast furnace in Texas. Texans thought then that their fondest industrial dream of a native steel industry would finally come true. But at war's end, Lone Star was closed...