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...this time restricted the choice. Suddenly it was remembered that William Orville Douglas, 40, chairman of SEC, was born in Minne sota, raised and schooled in Yakima and Walla Walla, Wash. A trial balloon for the Douglas appointment was released just before the President went war-gaming with the fleet (TIME, Feb. 27). This week, the President named Mr. Douglas to be the youngest Associate Justice since Joseph Story, who was but 32 when President Madison appointed him in 1811 for a term that lasted 34 years...
...authoritative Army and Navy Register reported that in port at Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, after Caribbean maneuvers, sailors of the U. S. fleet bought $3,472.26 worth of native baskets, cocktail napkins, fingertip towels, baby bibs...
...little village of Alder, Wash, heard the sedate rumble of her four 1,100 h.p. engines change to a snarling roar as her pilot put her nose downhill through the overcast one day last week. From the clouds 10,000 feet above them she burst into view, fleet, round-bodied. A black speck burst from her left side, grew with incredible rapidity as it hurtled to the ground-an engine. Her sleek left wing swung back, twisted in the air and fell away as her engines alternately roared and growled...
...baseball, are slightly smaller than a golf ball, have put players' eyes out. With recovering, costing about 10?, balls can be made to last for 100 years. Played like four-wall handball, kin to pelota, pallone and other Basque games, it was probably originated by bored debtors in Fleet Street prison about 1800. Like court tennis, it was soon taken over by the notably solvent, is now the luxury of a comparative handful in the U. S. on 14 courts in exclusive clubs. Main U. S. racqueteer is a Manhattan broker, Robert Grant...
...measure authorizes a fleet of 6000 planes for the Army Air Corps, the most potent aerial force in the nation's history, calls for new and stronger fortifications around Panama Canal, bolsters seacoast and inland defenses, increases the size of the Army, and equips it with vast supplies of vital equipment such as automatic rifiles, anti-aircraft guns and artillery...