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...rocketing Buck Rogers. Designed to tweak the curiosity of young readers or listeners will be stories giving a sound if rudimentary picture of the physical world and modern industry. Novel literary features include: vocational stories "appealing to the child's deep interest in the motorman, the fireman, the engineer, etc."; "Paper Tearing," a section "designed to satisfy a child's constant demand for nonsense"; and "How Big," a section illustrating the relative size of things: of for example, bears and small boys...
...Newark fireman, Christopher Devine went to work for Childs in 1925 as a $25-a-week office boy. Three years later, when he was only 23, he became head trader. In 1933 he launched his own firm with eight employes. Now it has 150. On its shelves often sit as much as $25,000,000 in Government securities, and Christopher Devine's pockets are supposedly lined with several million dollars. Blue-eyed, quiet, he belies his repute as a plunger. His greatest coup was last June's buying of an entire $60,000,000 issue of Pennsylvania...
...from the cab belched strange clouds of steam. On toward nearby Cedarville it hissed, roared over the Main Street crossing with no warning blast, came to a wheezing stop at the town's westerly limits. But no human hand had thrown the brake. The engineer and his fireman, scalded and dead, were lying three miles back, along the Selma grade...
...first general elections brought N. M. U. feuds frothing to the surface last week. When the ballots were counted, Joe Curran, unopposed in the election, was nominally on top as president. But under him were four hostile members of the new national council of nine officers. Beefy, flaccid Fireman Jerome King defeated Communist Jack Lawrenson for secretary treasurer. Two others also were out & out anti-Curran men. A fourth leaned not so much against popular Joe Curran as against the Communist friends to whom he, though no Communist, turned for counsel in the union's early days. Eager...
...Eastbound from Missoula, a huge Northern Pacific freight locomotive, with 75 cars behind and a hundred hoboes riding, blew up in Hell Gate Canyon with the mightiest roar Montana has heard since Paul Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry...