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...Schneider, stood figuratively at bay. All through Depression the giant Schneider-Creusot works have been racing to fill orders, their furnaces blazing and their lathes screaming as they turned out guns and projectiles for Japan, and for such other good customers as China. With the French budget now cracking under a deficit of seven and one-half billion francs, the Chamber's ruling Left-Center politicians have resolved in recent weeks to crack down on French munitions makers for a larger share of their profits than can be extracted by ordinary taxes from such secretive, elusive and resourceful tycoons...
...final guarantee of innocence, pulls down a centreboard between them. All this provides Mr. & Mrs. Langner with plenty of material for salty preliminary lines, occupies two acts of their comedy. A fire-eating Virginia cavalryman, a hell-scorched preacher and a bumbling sheriff add to the fun, and Meg (crack-voiced Dennie Moore), a licentious slavey who nevertheless "keeps it patriotic." supplies the really bawdy element of the piece. A typical line of hers, addressed to a horseman to whom she has taken a fancy, ends the play: "Come into the kitchen, captain. I've got something...
...from Louisville, Ky. where it had been exhibited, the Royal Scot, crack London-to-Edinburgh train which was brought to the U. S. for A Century of Progress, struck and killed one Charles Lee Mitchell, 22, while passing through Reed, Ky. Engineer William Gilbertson did not know he had killed a man, continued his run to St. Louis...
Number 42--Anthony Morandos '35, center, pivot of the Purple line, a tough nut to crack...
...Crack for Everybody." When this organized opposition popped up, Administrator Whiteside and General Johnson decided to do what had been done with few other codes-publish it in its final form before it was sent to the White House. "I want everybody to have a crack at it," said the General. Mr. Whiteside recommended that the price-fixing clause be approved. Onetime member of the War Industries Board and now president of Dun & Bradstreet, Mr. Whiteside is a pillar of the NRA and in line for head of one of the four permanent divisions. A sallow, bristle-haired credit...