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When played on a fresh record, the needle's tone was not too good, the high frequencies being very fuzzy. In other words, the needle (from one case--not too good a test, it's true) seems to be good for only two hundred sides--and that at dire risk to your records. Either the needle is bad, the record surface poor--or quite possibly both. Cactus needles look like a far safer...
Dark clouds of dire dimension soon took...
They hated their war rations-soggy bread compounded of coconut meat and milk, maize, lablab (wild beans), arrowroot, flower petals; coffee from roasted coconut shreds; dried grass instead of tobacco-and their clothes were getting ragged. They were in dire need of wheat flour, sugar, lard, potatoes, matches and all kinds of processed supplies. Worst of all, they feared disease. So, when the ship indicated it would stop, they eagerly gathered up the leaf baskets, wood carvings, woven hats and bird feathers, which are their dollars, quarters, dimes and nickels, and stood by their longboats in the crescent of Bounty...
...executive committee tossed off a resolution on labor peace. If things go well for labor in the next few months, I. L. G. W. U.'s resolution may be called an important item in labor history. If things go badly, it can at least go down as a dire prophecy. The resolution announced that...
Last week in dire distress again were Columbus, Youngstown, Lima, Cleveland, most of the urban centres. Toledo shut its poverty-stricken schools, sent 40,000 children home, wondered how it would care for 5,913 unemployed persons and their dependents besides. In Cleveland, 60,000 people dependent on direct relief saw little chance of getting it. Starvation, sickness were spectres at the Thanksgiving feast...