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...years later, Carrier set up his own company with $35,000 capital. Soon he was providing equipment for candymaking plants, dusty tobacco factories, textile mills, the film industry and hotels.' Not till the Depression did Cloud Wampler appear on the scene. Wampler, a Knox College (Ill.) graduate, was a successful investment banker with Chicago's Lawrence Stern & Co., specializing in real estate; one of his tenants in Chicago was Carrier Corp. When Carrier, hard hit by hard times, asked for a rent reduction Wampler coldly replied that the company needed a lot more than that. He became financial...
...Boston theater, as he started the second chorus of The Little White Cloud That Cried, Sob Singer Johnnie Ray discovered that the audience of some 4,000 was crying right along with him. Someone had turned loose some tear...
...participate in any full convention vote on the seating of other contested delegations. Said the governors: "We believe that if contested delegations are permitted to vote on the seating of other contested state delegations, the Republican Party . . . will enter a vital and difficult campaign under a serious moral cloud...
...warm layer hangs several thousand feet up (see diagram). Often the layer contains dust, which increases its power to divert light. If an airplane is flying just above this layer, the pilot may see the dim displaced image of the sun, the moon or a high, brightly lighted cloud. The image will appear below him; it may be distorted, magnified, or in rapid motion. If the inversion has waves in its surface (common near mountain ridge's), the pilot may see a line of bright objects in rapid motion. Menzel believes that this is what Pilot Kenneth Arnold...
...skies will cloud up again Friday afternoon, however, according to the Bureau prediction, thus spoiling the weekend for those who will be able to enjoy...