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...house of Weicker & Co. announced it would take a new partner on Jan. 2: Francis Warren Pershing, 24, only son of General John, J. Pershing. His qualifications: a degree from Sheffield Scientific School, 1931 (voted "most likely to succeed"); a year spent selling crushed stone for New York Trap Rock Corp.; several months "connected" with Weicker & Co.; a third share in the $819,000 estate of his late famed grandsire, the venerable Senator Francis Warren of Wyoming...
...often accompany him. Flying is only one accomplishment of attractive Mrs. Vidal. She has played bits on stage and screen, once wrote Washington chit-chat for Hearst's Universal Service. The Vidals live with Senator & Mrs. Gore in the Gores' spacious house near Washington's Rock Creek Park...
...With millions of sharks to be had for the taking, he thinks the shark business has a big future. Shark oil is used for tanning, steel-tempering, paint-making. Tons of shark meat, which tastes something like lobster, are sold daily throughout the world, usually under the name of "rock salmon" or "grayfish." Ground-up shark carcass makes good poultry feed or fertilizer. Chinese snap up shark fins for making soup...
...start of highway construction took a few hundred jobless. Federal flood-control work on the Missouri took 300 more. To supply crushed rock for the river and highway work two new quarries were opened, four old ones reopened. That took another 300. Gravel pits resumed operations with truckers getting contracts. A small packing plant and Refrigerator Express Co. leased part of the vacant Burlington shops. Payrolls were spent in Plattsmouth and merchants took on help...
Most of the marvels have to do with acoustics. Each of the 35 studios, 16 of which are in use, is a room within a room, supported clear of the building floors by heavily padded steel springs, and sound insulated by three inches of rock-wool, 250 tons of which were used in all. Every studio has an observation room, a clients' (advertisers') booth and a control room, all shut off from the studio proper by three thicknesses of plate glass...