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Wires flashed the news around the world. For 15 minutes commission men in New York, cotton mill operators in New England and the South, spinners in Manchester, in Bombay and Osaka, caught their breath, figured furiously, sent cables. After 20 minutes when trading was resumed in Manhattan, brokers' hands...
Palestine-It made no difference that War Minister Alfred Duff Cooper was lolling in the Balkans on a yachting cruise with King Edward. There were plenty of capable subordinates on hand when emergency cables began pouring into London from Jerusalem last week. A crisis of the most extreme urgency, in...
In Lima President Oscar Benavides of Peru last week addressed an angry crowd. Said he: "I have just received cables from the Argentine, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico solidifying the Peruvian attitude against the crafty Berlin decision." The crowd, which had already torn down an Olympic flag, surged on to listen...
Fallible Wires. By no means are A. S. T. M. tests infallible. After satisfying A. S. T. M. specification for strength and flexibility, galvanized annealed steel wires were used for a suspension bridge over Mt. Hope Bay between Bristol and Ports mouth, R. I. Before the bridge was completed the...
Last week's decision of a Circuit Court in New Orleans that the National Labor Relations Act did not apply to manufacturers gave an idea to the AP's counsel, white-crowned John William Davis. First he pointed out that the AP is not run for profit, can...