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With a banker's natural curiosity, old A. P. Giannini wanted to meet the 32-year-old builder who had already borrowed $30 million from his Bank of America, and was now asking for $50 million more. So he made a special trip to Los Angeles, dropped in on Paul W. Trousdale, looked at his past projects and future plans. Banker Giannini's curiosity was apparently satisfied, for last week Trousdale announced that he was getting his $50 million loan...
That the GI bill was intended to be a freely given bonus is evident from its extensive provisions, which offer aid to almost every veteran--student, home builder, business man, or jobless. The only class that is slighted is the married student with children, who receives the same ninety dollars per month as the married student with no one but his wife to support. A logical case can be advanced for the justness of upping the allotment of GI scholars with children, and in fairness to this group, which was ignored in the original GI bill, such an adjustment should...
...artist-turned-engineer, show off his steamboat. They called it "Fulton's Folly." Last week in Danbury, Conn, the scene was repeated with variations. The occasion: the first flight of the "Airphibian," a 150-h.p. light plane which can be bisected into an aluminum-bodied automobile.* The builder & demonstrator: Robert Edison Fulton Jr., an architect-turned-engineer and a descendant (he doesn't know the exact relation) of steamboat-builder Fulton...
...airphibian-builder Fulton put the blame on the kind of planes being made...
...Builder & Botanist. Author Hahn supports the theory that the British Empire was much more a collection of happy accidents (happy for the British) than the resuit of a long-range policy. But, like all previous biographers, she "has .no doubt about the empire-building ambitions of Raffles himself. "[He] saw the [East India] Company ... a part ... of the great divine plan of empire. He never doubted the final Tightness of empire; he merely doubted the Company's interpretation ... of Divinity's intentions. . . . He dreamed of a great British Empire in the Indies, with Java as the center...