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...Bottom) also landed in each other's chair. Cabinet critics waited to see what sort of stuff this new & bigger job brought out of young De La Warr, who in World War I was a conscientious objector who showed his nerve by serving on a mine sweeper...
...Bradley) Gambling some morning or other. With his Musical Clock, his all-in-fun setting-up exercises, cheerio music, wheezy gags, weather information and news scraps, John B. Gambling has been a WOR fixture for 15 years. Once he was a British seaman on a World War I mine sweeper. He got his job at WOR as a technician in 1925 at $30 a week. Now he says he makes $25,000 a year at his early-bird program, has had a parade of sponsors of whom the current ones are Bond clothes and Pepsi-Cola. John B. hasn...
...laid down this year (if Congress assents) are two more battleships, another aircraft carrier, two cruisers, eight destroyers, six submarines, four auxiliary tenders (which the Navy sorely lacks), one mine sweeper...
...hands from pockets. The Royal Navy appreciates what tough work it is they do, having a mine-sweeping fleet of its own. Publicly discovered last week was the fact that Robin Inskip, 22, son of Viscount Caldecote (Lord Chancellor in the Chamberlain War Cabinet), was aboard the mine sweeper Aragonite when she was blown out of water last fortnight with serious injury to four men. Safe home in London with his family, Robin Inskip chirped: "A bit of a shakeup...
...fifth day the fat was in the fire. Onetime roundhouse sweeper Walter Chrysler, who had left the presidency of Buick ($500,000 a year) to retire at 44 from an industry that wouldn't let him quit, who had later founded blazing Chrysler Corp. on the ashes of the dying Maxwell-Chalmers fire, had agreed to buy Dodge. The price suited Walter Chrysler, right down to the ground: $170,000,000 in new Chrysler stock. Without turning over a penny of cash Chrysler Corp. had taken over all the floor space and forge and foundry facilities it needed...