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Fact-minded Administrator Newton has spent a good chunk of his life making things plain. A graduate of Dartmouth (1920), a Rhodes scholar (law), a post-graduate Harvard law student, Newton's first public job as assistant U.S. attorney was to help dig into a $6,500,000 alien property fraud, come up with such plain facts that President Harding's alien property custodian, Thomas W. Miller, was sent to jail. Later, as special counsel for New York State, he investigated sewer scandals, smashed an arson ring, was named special assistant attorney general...
...later turned the Burma Road into an efficient supply line). John Hertz and "My Boy Danny" are no longer on Keeshin's board, but air-minded Lehman Corp. ''who also have a finger in both American Airlines and Pan American Airways) still own a big chunk of his company. Keeshin's grandiose postwar air-freight plan is to serve over 200 U.S. cities with five-to-eleven-ton transports and also to establish "gateway" service for foreign freight runs in 18 air "ports," from New York to Seattle, and from Minneapolis to Miami and New Orleans...
Drawing starts with a round chunk or disk of steel which is cupped, then elon gated by a series of punches and dies which work the metal into cylindrical shape. The open end is trimmed or tapered, the base machined to shape. Between draws, which harden the steel, the cartridge case must be annealed. To protect it from corrosion and sparking it must also be varnish-sprayed and baked...
...Harrison (Harrison Oil Co.) traded his troubles and his company to the Mag nolia Petroleum Co. for $28,000,000; E. J. Fair and Roy River sold a chunk of their holdings to the Stanolind Oil & Gas Co.; American Liberty Oil Co. sold 25 wells for $1,113,000; Broderick & Calvert sold their West Texas holdings to Phillips Petroleum and Sun Ray Oil for $4,500,000; Buffalo Oil sold Gulf a half interest in north Texas wells for $1,000,000. The list is long-and in an oil short world-depressing...
...funds, Dr. Carlson made a drastic suggestion: the liquor industry should allot 10% of its present advertising budget, and Government should contribute a big chunk of the liquor revenue to the prevention and treatment of alcoholism...