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...President Roosevelt urging enactment of a bill providing for condemnation of rights of way across ten States which would supply Middle Atlantic refineries with crude oil for finished petroleum products. Purpose of the bill: to relieve pressure on the railroads. The Atlantic Coast's congested defense areas now depend for their petroleum on tankers plying between the Gulf Coast and Middle Atlantic ports. When the ships are moved into transocean lanes, the railroads must supply the oil. Therefore, argued Mr. Roosevelt, build the pipelines...
...rally to celebrate "I Am An American Day" and the Mayor, facing the biggest crowd in Manhattan's history, let himself go. He led the bands, introduced the speakers, exchanged ancient jokes with Eddie Cantor, and wound up with a message to dictators : "I tell them not to depend on the fifth column in this country because there is only one column here. That is the American column." He overshadowed Harold Ickes, bubbled and sizzled like a drop of water in a hot frying pan, and left Manhattan with the astonished realization that it had produced at a patriotic...
...came to depend too much on Pa. She asked him, for instance, to settle a strike of 210 workers making mosquito netting at Arcadia Knitting Mills, Inc. in Allentown, Pa. She dumped cases into the Board's lap at the rate of almost one a day, not counting Sundays and holidays. The Board did what it could, working night & day, sitting for twelve to 18 hours at a stretch. Of 34 cases certified, it ended 28, sent one back to Ma Perkins as out of its jurisdiction...
...doing last week, if the British Navy kept Nazi troops from reaching Syria, if the drive on Egypt stayed stalled, then Ambassador von Papen would have to try to get the Turkish front door open. Whether to burst or to pry would be decided by his boss, and would depend on Hitler's timetable...
...relative strength of the two groups in a period of social change, Burnham implies in two casually grim sentences: "The position, role and function of the managers are in no way dependent upon the maintenance of capitalist property and economic relations (even if many of the managers themselves think so); they depend upon the technical nature of ... modern production." "The position, role and function of the most privileged of all groups, the finance-capitalists, are, however, entirely bound up with capitalist property and economic relations...