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...Because the temperature ran to 150° F., Magma Copper would have abandoned its 4,600-ft.-deep Arizona mine. But air conditioning pulls the mercury to 90° F. and the mine is producing at record clip...
Biggest of the new C ships is the C3, (11,975 tons) which can clip along at 17 knots. The U.S. has taken over seven of the 18 C-3s built to date, to convert into small aircraft carriers for the Navy and Great Britain. Conversion takes only about four months. One of the C-3s, now the U.S.S. Long Island (see cut), is already...
...overdrawn bank account, a purse with less than $50 in it, receipts for jewels she had sold. Later, when chorus girls offered to help, Mae said: "I am only down to my last few millions. . . . If the girls want to ... they could give me a nice new scissors to clip my coupons...
...Beauty Connoisseur Earl Carroll sued Paramount for $300,000, charging A Night at Earl Carroll's had done that much damage to his reputation as a producer. // Franchot Tone told the district attorney he gave a jeweler $14,100 to buy a diamond-and-sapphire clip, sell it, and split the profits; but the jeweler put the clip in hock and never gave back the money. // Nelson Eddy and stepson settled an $8,723 damage suit against them for a traffic accident. // A cinemagoer who said he tripped over Chico Marx's sprawled legs in a theater sued...
...foreign trade, the Nazis developed a "system of living on their debts." South Africa sent Germany its wool clip for three years before realizing the locomotives, etc. promised in payment were never going to arrive...