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...attempt to trap etching-collectors into self-betrayal, applicants are asked, "What are your interests and hobbies?"; and, "Would you prefer a girl that shared them...
Married. Gertrude Bennett, 17, Michigan State Normal College student, daughter of Harry H. Bennett, Ford's hard-boiled personnel director and plant police head; to Russell Hughes, 21, tap dancer and trap drummer. Chubby Gertrude's abrupt disappearance, after the receipt by Bennett of several phoned and mailed threats in recent months, the last "particularly nasty in its implications," made Bennett fear kidnapping. Federal agents were notified, a search begun. But Miss Bennett had merely eloped to Florida...
...including the cost of its rental in the rate base, a company official testified a few weeks ago that in an emergency it could turn out power on an hour's notice. "We waited until they had committed themselves fully," said Mr. Beamish smugly, "then we sprang the trap...
When Walter Gibbs bought his land in 1913 he thought he was just going to use it for shooting ducks. But people told him he could easily pay his taxes in muskrat pelts. Mr. Gibbs was pleased to find he could. He invented two traps: one which got the muskrats not only by the leg (which they often gnaw off to escape) but also by the body; another which netted them, captured them alive. Before long he was inventing and manufacturing traps to catch everything from English sparrows to bears. By 1919 he had a large factory in Trainer...
...Cameron Land Co. in the Louisiana bayous, the great U. S. muskrat country. Their pelts retail at from 50? to $1.25., But prime muskrat is black muskrat, whose native habitat is around the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and whose pelts bring $2. With the money he got for his trap factory Mr. Gibbs promptly bought 3,000 acres of muskrat marsh on Currituck Sound, N. C., began transferring his black muskrats south. More than half the 2,400 muskrats he caught alive in Maryland last year he shipped off to breed in North Carolina. Since then he has been busy...