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While contradictory rumors still rumbled about the misunderstanding which occurred when Henry Ford turned down a contract to build 9,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines, the Defense Advisory Commission's William S. Knudsen last week faced about and offered the contract to Packard Motor...
...lasted all afternoon, while reporters waited. To them was handed a curt announcement: the Rolls-Royce project had been discussed, but "many matters require further study." Max Gilman apologized for a statement which "you [reporters] will probably think is a dud." It was by no means certain that the contract would be signed. Bill Knudsen's effort to get 9,000 Rolls-Royces seemed to carry a jinx...
...Missus Goes to Market, the Bartlett shows are broadcast from recordings each morning except Sunday over station WBBM, potently plug the virtues of Kitchen Klenzer, Big Jack Soap, Automatic Soap Flakes. Last week, in a lather of success, Tommie Bartlett was airing his performances under a new contract, which binds him to Fitzpatrick Bros., his sponsors, for the fifth consecutive year...
...beginning Dr. Gamow pictures an enormously hot, tremendously dense gas expanding in space. As it expanded, it thinned and cooled. Chance aggregations began to clump together out of the mass, to contract by gravity. These were infant stars. They were very large, and diffuse, relatively cool...
...passed its first youth as a red giant star, like the one in the constellation Auriga which has about 4,000,000 times the sun's volume but only 15 times its mass, and which is only .000005 as dense as water. But as red giants contract, they get hotter, as air in a pump gets hotter when it is compressed. The sun appears to be some two billion years old now, and it is hot enough to live on atomic energy, converting hydrogen into radiation...