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Despite loud wails from the steel industry that it is selling many basic products such as plates at less than cost, it managed to hold the line fairly well. U.S. Steel was off slightly, from $17,406,597 to $17,027,616. Bethlehem, with its profitable shipbuilding still an anchor to windward, managed to push up its net a little, to $6,432,538. Only Jones & Laughlin fell far behind, from...
...hearings before the House Select Committee on Postwar Military Policy, Army leaders plumped solidly for a thorough reorganization of the national military setup. The basic plan: merger of the War and Navy Departments into a single department of the armed forces...
Except for the non-swimmers who are still non-swimming, we are now exercising out on the grass and cinders about Soldiers Field. The gym is a fine building, but it lacks sunlight and grass, two things we who have done our basic in sandy camps or bivouacked in rainy weather appreciate greatly...
...plan also sidesteps a good many other postwar financial problems as repayments of war debts and such basic economic factors as trade barriers. But its avowed purpose is merely to provide a mechanism. for orderly exchanges, assuming that some sound economic order will be established in the world. The fact that the experts of 34 nations could agree on this much was perhaps the most hopeful sign that such order is possible...
...Westbrook Pegler's sponsors as a national columnist was Secretary Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News (until three years ago it shared Pegler's basic syndicate contract with Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram). Recently the Daily News has omitted many Pegler columns. Last week Editor Paul Scott Mowrer explained (but not to his readers) why the Daily News had stopped printing them altogether: "We find that our own columnists are much more popular...