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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were pouring into Mar del Plata, the Atlantic City of the south. With 300,000 vacationists jamming its villas and 671 hotels, it had become for the season Argentina's third city. The renowned Hector y Su Jazz played nightly to capacity crowds at the world's largest casino. Beachgoers dined on steaks two inches thick, tangoed to a new tune called El Cafetin de Buenos Aires, then wound up their day with a fling at roulette. Though nowadays only waiters and casino attendants dressed after dark, much of the-old Argentine formality persisted. Most sedate...
...Eccles walked back to the stand. A.P.'s attorneys tried to lay the complaint to Eccles' "personal bias and prejudice." Eccles conceded that, through the Eccles Investment Co., his family owns 44% of the stock of First Security Corp. of Ogden (Utah), which advertises itself as "the largest banking institution in the intermountain states." But he insisted that that had nothing to do with his fear that Transamerica was a monopoly...
...wasn't even speaking to himself after the varsity swimmer's heart yarding 41 to 34 loss to Army Saturday after before the largest crowd of the last in the Indoor Athletic Building. As anchor man in the 400 yard freestyle, Fox churned out the fastest 100 yards in his life, 52.0 seconds, only to such two tenths of a second behind Fary's great Jim Smyly. By winning of event, Smyly untied the meet for second, and clinched second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League for the badets, Yale has already drubbed Army...
...course catalogue. During the fall term, checks were made every half hour in Chem. 20 labs to determine just how much time each student was spending there. The survey showed a few men working for almost twice the stated requirement of approximately six hours a week, while the largest proportion of the class was working from eight to nine hours. Under the revised plan, it is expected that everyone in the course will have ample time to complete the assignments in a six-hour lab-week...
This smoke-shrouded monster is Lockheed's 92-ton Constitution, the largest commercial-type land plane in use. Built for the U.S. Navy, the Constitution took off last week from Moffet Field, Calif., on its maiden passenger trip to Washington. Six auxiliary jets helped the plane cut its take-off run. The double-decked Constitution broke no speed records (it made the trip in 9 hrs. 35 min.), but it carried 90 people, the largest number ever flown in a nonstop transcontinental flight. Though Lockheed has no commercial orders for the plane, President Robert Gross thinks it would...