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...business when I have guessed wrong or moved too slow. A young boy called up from Oklahoma City-and wants to break in roughnecking and be an oil man. The boy is lucky as hell in not knowing that digging oil wells ain't exactly playing Ping Pong. I kind of admire that boy. It don't seem so long ago that I was riding freights and had wrinkles in my belly too. But they all came...
...hold lay a cargo of bean cakes, machinery, flour, and beer for the British flotilla preparing to assist in the blockade of Vladivostok. A handful of passengers-missionaries, German merchants, two or three mysterious White Russians-were lolling in the lounge; a couple of junior officers were playing ping-pong; below decks a horde of Chinese coolies bickered and laughed. On the bridge the lookout casually noticed the approach of a Japanese torpedo boat
...enjoying my informal position in the University," Held commented. "The boys seem to think of me as a Father Confessor. They come down and chat not only about drawing, sculpting, horse-racing, and ping-pong, but one fellow the other day even began to talk over his frustrated sex life with...
...total U. S. plywood production at $45,500,000. The figure for 1939 will probably be around $80,000,000. The stuff is being used for luggage, piano cases, radio cabinets, speedboats, concrete forms, truck bodies, prefabricated houses, cinema studio sets, boxcars, beer barrels, showcases, jigsaw puzzles, Ping-pong tables. Eugene Vidal, onetime head of the U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce, is now president of a small company which has developed a low-cost plywood airplane, and he plans soon to lease manufacturing rights. FORTUNE estimates the total number of plywood uses, decorative and structural, at more than...
That Harvard drubbed Yale to the tune of our goals and four touchdowns to nothing may be partially explained by the rules difficulties. Football as it was played at Cambridge and football as it was played at New Haven were as unlike as marbles and ping-pong. For years the Yales and the Harvards couldn't get together...