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With only a few mechanics, timekeepers and the grim, grey mountains looking on, Mayor Jenkins coddled his thundering 2½-ton Mormon Meteor once around the course. Then in a twinkling, the wooden markers (set at soft, intervals) became a picket fence, the flat track a gigantic bowl of salt. Round & round he whirred. In less than 15 minutes, a huge blackboard was raised outside the timekeeper's shack: "New World's Record for 50 kilometers-172.915 miles per hour." An eyeblink later, another board went up, marking a new record for 50 miles. Then, in quick succession...
Besides supplying the thousands of items, from picket pins to tanks, that go into the Army lists, G-4 builds and maintains buildings, leases and buys land, has charge of transportation, traffic, is accountable for all Army property. All this is right up the professional alley of Dick Moore, who has been a supervising engineer on the U. S.'s great rivers, had a detail to Peru with the United States Naval Mission in 1928-30, commanded combat engineers and headed up the Atlantic Sector of the Canal Zone. A general officer since 1938, he was in command...
When Idaho oldtimers last fortnight took a good look at the murals in Boise's new courthouse, they were fit to be tied. The murals, by R. G. Bartlett and Los Angeles WPA workers, showed a cabin on the Oregon Trail-with boarded gables and white New England picket fence; a sissy trapper standing by while an Indian seized his horse. "That may be good art but it isn't true to nature," yelped angry Probate Judge John Jackson. "Any trapper who let an Indian get that close to his horse would be ostracized as unworthy...
...goes to New Orleans to conduct a political investigation. As Loganberry has his eye on the White House, the Louisiana bad boys, as a way of silencing him, try to catch him off base with women. The Senator outwits them, but is finally brought to heel with a picket line, which the politicos insist "no Presidential aspirant will ever cross...
...walkout- ostensibly for a union shop and a 10% pay rise, really to bring recalcitrant members of the C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee union (recently defeated in an NLRB election at the plant) into line. Glum at having their party called off, Disston workers trod their picket line without bitterness. Said one laconic oldtimer: "Well, they wanted a closed shop-and they...