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...American Airways airport. What seagoing Pan Am was doing so far from the seacoast was best explained by a sheaf of papers on the desk of Brazil's Dictator-President Getulio Vargas, awaiting his signature. Signed, they would permit Pan Am to lop two days off its five-day, 5,777-mile run from Miami down to Rio de Janeiro...
...fuzzy-eyed freshmen of a Wall Street bond school, the bankers knew exactly what they were doing. Each had paid $20 for his five-day course in practical banking. Tried out experimentally in 1937 by North Carolina's hefty, progressive bank commissioner, Gurney Pope Hood, the course was so successful that some 20 other States adopted it. During its four-year run the school has taught bankers from some four-fifths of North Carolina's 228 banks (resources...
...aggress on little nations (like Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Rumania), and to "recognize and defend the right of the oppressed nations to a self-determination in the political sense of the word" (like Spain), last week Russia once again needed skid chains. The U. S. S. R. discarded its five-day, 35-hour work week, in its place substituted a six-day, 48-hour week. Purpose: to speed defense production. Once again a decree forbidding workers to shift jobs was promulgated. In Rome, Mussolini amiably upped the Italian 40-hour week to equal the Russian...
Last week Emporia, Kans. held a five-day Fiestaval to dedicate its new $613.000 Civic Auditorium. Jiving, jittering climax of the Fiestaval was a dance, to music supplied (at $1,100) by dapper Duke Ellington, greatest of black swing-sters, and his band. The Sage of Emporia, wise old William Allen White, watched the cavortings, went home and wrote a garrulous, kindly-shrewd editorial for his Emporia Gazette. Excerpts...
Score: 375 cured, one lost. Mostly charity cases, patients were paid a dollar to return to the hospital for regular checkups extending over a period of two or three years. Some patients, said Dr. Hyman, need a second five-day treatment after several months. The entire course costs only $82 a patient, as contrasted with an average of $300 for the standard 18 months of arsphenamine injections. Drawback to mass cures of the 600,000 victims of early syphilis in the U. S. is the fact that drip technique can be used only in hospitals, not in doctors' offices...