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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Nevertheless, dopesters were less alarmed. Their reassuring facts: 1) Great Britain was used to buying upwards of 200,000,000 Ibs. of U. S. tobacco, so that the 20,000,000-lb. market promised to the Turks would make very little difference; 2) the British had on hand a two-and-a-half-year supply of U. S. tobacco, and being out of the market this year didn't mean they would stay out next; 3) during World War I, when Turkey was a German ally, Britons weaned themselves from sweetish Turkish, got the grown-up Virginia habit...
Radio's Superman is six-foot-two, 184-lb. Clayton Collyer, brother of Cinemactress June Collyer. The episodes are produced in Manhattan by Superman, Inc., recordings expressed to stations using them. Superman has a sound effect about every four lines. For many of his righteous crushers, jumping on various sized berry baskets suffices. For the disintegration of a steel ball bearing in an episode recorded last week, the sound men finally got the oomph they wanted by tossing a dinner plate in the air, busting it with a hammer on the way down...
Porpoises, which belong to the order of toothed whales, are mammals, nurse their young with breast milk, must breathe air at intervals or die. One morning last week a staff assistant saw that the 600-lb. female, which had mated more than a year ago, was having violent contractions of the belly. Other observers gathered rapidly, but it was not until afternoon that the baby began to emerge, tail first...
...driver must use split-second judgment, must take icy hairpin curves with hairline precision at 70 m.p.h., must keep his 500-lb. sled in the centre of the straightaways. Bobsled drivers are usually big, bold iron...
...Wingerter (C) Hoag (C) Main (Y) Rogers (H) Two Mile White (C) Tuttle (H) Bull (D) Burwell (H) Broad Jump Blount (D) Hunter (D) Murdock (C) Partlow (H) High Jump Blount (D) Murdock (C) Partlow (H) Bunker (H) Pole Vault Lussen (Y) Madey (H) MacIsaac (H) Godfrey (D) 35-Lb. Weight Shallow (H) McCutcheon (C) Gale (H) Ide (D) Shot Put Downing (H) West (C) Mendel (H) Nissen (D) Mile Relay Cornell Harvard Yale Two Mile Relay Harvard Cornell Yale...