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...state chairman, the central committee chose Richard H. Balch (pronounced bawltch) a wealthy and genial fishing-tackle manufacturer from Utica. Behind Balch was the Fair Deal wing of the party, led by ailing Bronx Boss Ed Flynn, Mutual Security Director W. Averell Harriman and Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Behind the loser -one William H. Morgan of Cortland-was the conservative wing, led by former National Chairman and Postmaster General (1933-40) James A. Farley. After his election, Balch promptly demonstrated that his organization is still seriously divided: he hinted broadly that he didn't even consider Old Headmaster...
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Bottleneck Stopper. One of the chief bottlenecks of aircraft production, the making of turbine blades for jet engines, may be solved by a new machine developed by England's Omes, Ltd. Already in operation at the Utica (N.Y.) Drop Forge & Tool Corp., the machine precision-forges blades in half the time and at half the cost of present methods. Price...
...Company He Keeps. In Utica...
Calls came from Buffalo, Rochester and Utica, with each caller offering to sell'her a copy of Ten Nights for $2,500. "That night," says Miss Bender, "I couldn't even eat my dinner." Next day the confusion grew worse. Letters began to pour in by the hundreds, and finally Miss Bender had to get a secretary to handle them all. Meanwhile, "things at school were just at a standstill-everybody was so busy answering the phone...