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Stack is probably the best guard for the Elis, is fast, a good blacker, and packs his 215 pounds to advantage. Ruehel he other guard, who weighs in at 196 pounds, plays a lot like Chub "A.A." Peabody, and backs up the line when it shifts to a five man defensive setup...
Through the great bank of labor storm clouds over the U.S. last week appeared signs of sunlight. But first the thunderheads grew blacker. Near Milwaukee, at Allis-Chalmers, were riots and disorder. Failure of mine operators and workers to agree on a new contract shut down most of the country's soft-coal mines, resulted in death to five men in bloody Harlan County, Ky. Negotiations between C.I.O. and U.S. Steel reached an impasse and union leaders set the date for a walkout. The far-reaching Ford strike (see p. 21) made things seem even worse...
Future prospects looked even blacker. Nazi supply officers drove inconspicuously into the markets daily, loaded their trucks with staples in return for handfuls of worthless occupation marks. These were issued to soldiers and Nazi civil officers. Since the Germans controlled the gasoline supply, they could go the rounds of farms and "insist" on the farmers selling their products...
Even more modern omens were lacking : no bands of feverish citizens swarmed around newsstands to buy papers whose damp headlines hourly leaped higher and blacker; the radio was dull with soap operas and swing versions of Old Black Joe. On the surface, there was little tension...
...this a problem which will face the United States in doubled degree when the war has ended. A demobilized army and the collapse of defense industries will make blacker and more dangerous the post-war unemployment picture. Work-camps may not be a solution; they are an attempt at an answer. To the practical experiments now being undertaken, Harvard owes it to Williams James to contribute...