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This giant-and-pygmy combination would make sense aplenty. Because J. & L.'s mills are bunched in the Pittsburgh district, it has long wanted a Great Lakes plant near big steel-using centers like Detroit and Buffalo. J. & L. owns 900 acres at Hammond, Ind., last year tried to get Government cash to help build a plant, has yet to sign a contract. Merging with Otis would not only put J. & L. on the Great Lakes (Otis' home is Cleveland), but give it a more nearly complete range of products-at least in peace time. Although...
First open-air base hospital in U.S. history since the Civil War is the 2,900-bed unit established last month at Bataan by Colonel Carlton Lakey Vanderboget of Fort Missoula, Mont, and run by Colonel James W. Duckworth of Martinsville. Ind. The story is told in LIFE this week by TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby-how workmen bulldozed a road through miles of jungle while bombers attacked them, how engineers set up light plants, built water chlorinators, even changed the course of a river which ran through one hospital site. Highlights...
...thousand miles from the nearest seacoast, in a converted stove factory in landlocked Kokomo, Ind., Globe American Corp. is building lifeboats for the merchant marine. Its assembly line, which makes one 3,500-lb. boat every two hours, "launched" its 220th boat this week...
...once-great trading post of Vincennes, Ind., there is no longer a Gimbel Brothers-owned store; but four Gimbels went there last week to honor their tribe and business, founded there just 100 years ago. At table's head sat Grandson Bernard, president of Gimbel Brothers, Inc. and present family hetman. Knowing his genealogy as well as his retailing (to a Gimbel, the two are one), Bernard proudly enumerated the far-flung Gimbel line...
Died. Cinemactress Carole Lombard, 32; in a plane crash near Las Vegas, Nev. A high-strung, energetic blonde with a charmer's face and a talent for comedy, she had been a cinemactress since childhood. Born Jane Peters in Fort Wayne, Ind., she moved to Los Angeles at seven, made her cinedebut at eleven. She went into Mack Sennett comedies after an auto crash scarred her face, a few years later began appearing in romantic roles, emerged in recent years as an outstanding comedienne (My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred, Mr. and Mrs. Smith). Married to William Powell...