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...muddy Chaco itself, peppery little Paraguayan soldiers were pushing steadily forward, regardless of the League of Nations or Rutherford B. Hayes. Their objective is a collection of fortified shacks known as Fort Cabezon. Should they capture it Paraguay will control all passable roads in the war area, thus preventing any major operations by Bolivia until the end of the rainy season...
...Commonwealth, Ariz. Both passenger and freight traffic had nearly vanished with no hint of revival. Second largest was an entire railroad-the 56-mi. San Joaquin & Eastern running from El Prado to Cascade, Calif. Built to supply a utility construction project, it had outlived its usefulness and the area was well served by big buses and good roads. The Norfolk & Western sloughed off 54 mi. of trackage between Lenore, W. Va. and Wayne. Operating in a mountainous region and serving only a few farmers who sold their produce in local markets, the line was threatened by a new highway...
...weather map of business activity last week there was a high pressure area over Detroit. For the first time in five years U. S. motormakers could not fill their orders. Henry Ford had already opened two additional assembly plants. Chrysler plants, slow to get new streamlined cars into production, were last week operating with 21,000 more workers than last year. Hudson had 24,000 orders on hand and a working staff double its January average. Nash estimated that it would deliver more cars in the first quarter of this year than in all of last. Blamed in part...
...trying to keep the high intellectual standard which Harvard now holds the important thing about any system of scholarships is the "adequate choice from among the prospective candidates" the report says. "Even with our present funds it might be possible to conduct the interesting experiment of establishing in one area of this country (for example, in a portion of the Middle West) half a dozen thousand-dollar scholarships for entering Freshmen. A combination of school record, recommendations, special examinations, and personal interviews by competent judges should be tried in the endeavor to make a satisfactory choice...
Another important version of the Detroit debacle was given by Alfred P. Leyburn, chief national bank examiner in the Detroit area. His points...