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Like an elephant trying to curtsey, the . world's biggest school system last week coyly re-enacted its birth. New York City's Board of Education was 100 years old. To celebrate, it dressed its little girls in pinafores and pantalettes, its little boys in jackets and Buster...
But though the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey show has traded atmosphere for oomph, its exhibits are much the same as ever. There are no longer any tumbling Japs; but 600-lb., 12-year-old Gargantua is still on display in the basement. The sad, crummy-looking clowns still provoke...
Out of the north whipped nine Jap bombers at high altitude. Anti-aircraft slammed against the chattering of machine guns, and the convoy zigzagged in a crazy pattern. The Jap took dead aim and let go. His first salvo missed. The second took the Langley fairly. Dive-bombers bored in...
Spinning Guns. "The U.S. today leads the world in the science of gun-making," says Brigadier General Holland W. Case, Commandant of the Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal, and he gives most of the credit to replacement since 1918 of forging by centrifugal steel casting.* Steel for cannon is poured into horizontal...
The size of "Miss Rosie's" business is her own well-guarded secret (guesstimated 1937 peak: $1,000,000), but she readily admits that war has made a big hole in her sales. In some lines (particularly evening clothes, more than a third of her total sales), volume fell...