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...smaller fry who make up most of the industry were not production-minded. Rich, pink-cheeked Bomber Builder Reuben Fleet of Consolidated Aircraft, sensing the uncomfortable pressure of his biggest customer (the Navy) complained of the "risky margin" of 2¼% at which he might be forced to make planes. Having got some new plant as a gift from the British, many planemakers wanted a similar gift from the U. S. By year's end, U. S. aircraft was in an obvious mess. This month little Republic Aviation laid off 50 men because it could not get parts. Deliveries...
...winner by this tiny margin was another unusual figure, an insurance tycoon, J. Adhemar Raynault, who once before left his business to serve briefly as Mayor of Montreal, gave the city an administration active in Red-baiting. No spendthrift, M. Raynault slashed civic expenses. In his Gallic thrift Mayor Raynault had the mayor's official $1,400 fur robe stuffed away in a city vault to save the annual 3% furrier's storage charge. Moths ate all but the buttons...
...defense became flustered, the goalie lost his confidence, and the forward lines became even more inefficent in their passing attacks than before, if that be possible. All in all the Terriers scored five goals in that fateful twenty minutes and outclassed their supposedly superior Crimson rivals by a wide margin...
...jinx spurred a team of Longhorns that had been twice beaten this year to paralyze their old rivals with a lightning-swift stab. With Fullback Peter Layden tossing two magnificent forward passes and then plunging over the line, Texas chalked up a touchdown-that turned out to be margin enough to win the game...
...classical field, symphonies remain the dependable favorite at Cambridge with Beethoven and Wagner holding a wide margin over all other composers. The one recent alteration in the classics is a now interest in the works of string quartets and small instrumental groups. An explanation for this is that collectors, who possess the better-known records, are now branching out into novelties...