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After two months of the hardest, most spectacular work, General Johnson was beginning to get his second wind. His health was a matter of national concern; if he cracked, the whole NRA campaign might go under. His eyes were swollen from lack of sleep. Flashlamps were making him flinch. His temper was running short. President Roosevelt had to command him to get a night's sleep when he flew to Hyde Park fortnight ago (TIME, August 14). Even the fatherly New York Times last week advised him to "ease...
...works program, that by buying one of the biggest U. S. shipyards he was sure to get some of the biggest contracts. New York Shipbuilding's capitalization made it easy for Lou Manning to negotiate the deal for his boss. Sole voting power in the $15,000,000 concern rests with 185,500 founders' shares. And a majority was available in two blocks- one owned by the old partners of Blair & Co. (Bancamerica-Blair), one by Chase National Bank which salvaged the shares from the wreck of Pynchon & Co. For the two blocks Cord Corp. paid about...
Central station steam is no novelty in business. Already about 10% of Chicago's buildings are heated by steam sold by Illinois Maintenance Co. (an ex-Insull concern). Other cities have central steam systems. Largest is in Manhattan, served by New York Steam Co. which last year sold eleven billion pounds of steam. Problem for a new steam company in Chicago is to sell steam to the 90% of Loop buildings which now have individual heating plants...
Once again in Washington the Spanish Ambassador was asked to the State Department, told that the matter was now one of "grave concern"-fairly strong diplomatic talk. In Madrid, Ambassador Bowers received a letter from the male prisoners: "We are now four in a cell. . . . The stench is unbelievable." They concluded that the female prisoner, Mrs. Caroline Lockwood, "shows alarming signals of an approaching breakdown." In his tourist bureau Judge Vidal said authoritatively. "They cannot expect first-class hotel life while in jail...
...China report supports the general contentions of Re-Thinking Missions. The Laymen's Inquiry noted that Christian endeavor is out of line with current Oriental trends and advocated that Christianity concern itself directly with social service and only obliquely with conversion. The sociological work should be carefully coordinated by a super-missionary body representing all important Protestant denominations...