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...from 18 to 45 (the World War draft age was 21 to 30). There would be no exemptions, only deferments. Six field armies totalling 4,000,000 men would be in service within a year, leaving a reserve force of 7,000,000. A new wartime contract to eliminate excess profits would be used for industrial procurement. In readiness are 15,000 manufacturing plants to which the War Department can go immediately for the 4,000 items on its "shopping list." (The 1918 list was 700,000 articles.) Great cantonments would not be constructed but "full utilization of Federal, State...
...Suit What may be a $10,000,000 special profit for Gillette, but what would not be counted as earnings, was sought last week. Gillette sued United Cigar Stores for $10,000,000 damages, charging that in 1927 the two firms entered into a ten-year contract by which United was to retail Gillette products, but in which United misrepresented facts. The facts concerned the number of razors and blades United is able to sell. United at the time was under the management of the Whelan Brothers, bought out in 1929 by the Brothers Morrow...
...became overproduced everywhere. And last week bankrupt Mrs. Brown explained: "About a year ago rabbits began coming in from everywhere, thousands of them, by parcel post, truck and express. I couldn't tell if they were the offspring of my rabbits or not, but the people had my contracts, and I had to take them. They ate me out of house & home, and wouldn't go when I turned them loose. I hauled them to St. Louis and sold them for 10? apiece, or gave them away to motorists. Nearly all these claims against me are for rabbits...
Emperor Hirohito showed no desire to go anywhere near the Weaving Works last week. Three score of the self starved strikers dropped from exhaustion, were carried to a hospital. Hunger striking was not in the contract of the chimney sitting printer. Sympathizers threw him rice balls, hard boiled eggs and apples. Then he was provided with a rope and a bucket, hauled up plentiful nutriment hand over hand...
...Life hired him away, to succeed its outgoing Editor Robert Emmet Sherwood. Again?so his story runs?he ran afoul of the sensibilities of advertisers and, exactly one year ago, was dismissed. Now he is suing Life's President Clair Maxwell, alleging violation of a verbal five-year contract...