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...down a decision that clipped the Eagle's talons. Several cleaners and dyers joined in asking a court order to restrain Samuel Bazemore of St. Petersburg, Fla. from advertising prices in what is known in the South as "pressing clubs," lower than those in force in that trade area. The Judge refused the order because: 1) only the Federal District Attorney has authority to appeal to the courts for enforcement of the Recovery Act; 2) Samuel Bazemore was admittedly not engaged in interstate commerce and Congress therefore had no constitutional authority to regulate his business; 3) if Congress claims...
...divided into 20 trade areas, and each has its own Official Guide. Used-car prices vary widely because of local preferences for makes and types. Transportation costs, added to the f. o. b. price. also influence the second-hand market. Thus the listed prices are actual market values in each area. In compiling the Official Guide each month the lowest 20% of reported sales are eliminated to keep the averages from being weighed down by forced or junk sales...
...were able to co-ordinate distances reported by several stations, their eyes popped. The circles they drew all intersected in Baffin Bay, between Greenland and northeast Canada. Never before had a major quake occurred within the Arctic Circle west of Greenland. If the epicentre had been in a populous area, observed the seismologists, the loss of life & property would have been tremendous...
...Modern scientists in the Arctic are better trained, and know exactly what they want. Besides having unlimited economic resources, the land north of the Arctic circle presents a tremendous area that has never been touched. Tidal observations by the late Dr. R. A. Harris of Washington have shown a vast land area between Alaska and the pole, none of which has ever been explored or exploited...
...headmaster of Browne and Nichols school, whose boat house and playing grounds adjoin the land where the Cambridge and of the span will rest, said yesterday: "The suggested building of a bridge at this point will make access to the school easier and will open out the large marsh area below the cemetery to proper policing. To this part of the plan I have no objection whatsoever, but the shifting of the river bed, I consider somewhat extravagant...