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Ford. Last week, the Ford Motor Co. and its numerous allied industries, including coal mines and lumber camps, announced the adoption of a five-day weekly schedule as a permanent policy. (The Ford railroads, however, will continue their regular schedule.) The eight- hour day is still in force, and the Ford workers are expected to make as much in five days as they formerly...
...currents. Storms in September are erroneously called "equinoctial gales" if the term is taken to designate anything but an ordinary weather disturbance named for convenience, as who should say "a Christmas blizzard." Records taken over 50 years actually show fewer storms between Sept. 21 and 25 than during the five-day periods immediately before and after those dates...
...Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg arrived for a five-day conference with the President on foreign affairs and entanglements. He carried weighty reports on the Calles v. Catholics broil in Mexico, but assured Mr. Coolidge that no indignities had been done to U. S. citizens. Mr. Kellogg also carried unflattering news of the indifference of members of the World Court to U. S. entrance with Senate reservations...
Following a five-day series of receptions organized for the Freshman class by the Dean's Office, the undergraduates will give their first welcome to the incoming students this evening at 7.30 o'clock at the Phillips Brooks House. This reception is usually held on a Wednesday, but this year because of the fact that the University will not hold a formal reception for 1929 tonight, the Phillips Brooks House has shifted the date of their welcome a day ahead...
...threatens to forestall the U. S. in a voyage of discovery to the Polar areas this Summer, the German pilot is prepared to make an immediate dash to the Pole, not by way of Alaska- where mooring masts and other equipment have to be carefully prepared- but in a five-day non-stop flight of 6,000 miles from Lakehurst straight to the Pole and back. And this at 24 hours' notice. But it would be possible only with the lighter hydrogen gas. "With hydrogen, we could make the trip to the Pole and back easily and safely. With...