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Floyd Stahl gave Harvard the snappiest brand of baseball it has ever had and last year performed the difficult feat of working a group of Seniors into a well-oiled unit. This spring he had green hands to work with, and there were many headaches. Gene Lovett has never been a coach's ball player and has been a continual problem-child for Stahl...
...over again in theme, but some are new in detail. Typical changes: General Motors put more local, authentic scenery in its vast Futurama; Westinghouse's robot has an electrified dog to keep him company, its Microvivarium (kills germs with sterilizing rays) has been renamed Micro-blitzkrieg. Brand-new: Henry Ford's A Thousand Times Neigh, wherein a synthetic horse comes back to report on the evolution of the automobile; Du Font's Nylon factory...
...navy is shorebound without a merchant marine, which brings it food, supplies, oil. (One 10,000-ton cruiser at full power burns oil at the rate of 35 tons an hour.) In U. S. shipyards last week this lifeline-a brand-new merchant fleet-was also building: 118 cargo ships ordered by the U. S. Maritime Commission at a cost of better than $300,000,000. For a fillip, the yards had another $40,000,000 or more of private tankers and cargo ships under construction. To the U. S. shipbuilding industry, this added...
...town, hasn't visited a big city in nearly ten years, principally because he hates to change from his blue jeans to store clothes. Last week, while city readers were chuckling over his latest pictures of Big Ick and Worry Wart, Jim Williams was busy with a branding iron, sizzling his K4 and Lazy C Bar brand into the hides of this spring's crop of heifers...
...walked a lumber dealer. To the blacksmith he posed a problem: Could he make a two-wheel cart to hitch behind a truck, haul lumber from yard to job? August thought he could. In no time his two-wheelers were delivering lumber all over Detroit, and a brand-new U. S. industry was born: the commercial trailer...