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...Received from Pennsylvania's Kelly a bill proposing to permit the bituminous coal industry to form marketing pools, fix prices under Federal supervision-a suggestion made last autumn at the Third International Conference on Bituminous Coal in Pittsburgh (TIME...
...original scope of the Plan having, of course, been much enlarged. "We shall yet fulfill the Five-Year Plan in four years!" cried Premier Molotov. Twenty times in this part of his speech he repeated his pet word, "we shall organize this. . . . Organization will fix that. . . . The important thing is to do things the right way by organizing them...
...avoid squabbling and charges of favoritism, the Mother Country would not fix a separate quota for her imports from each Dominion. Instead British wheat importers would be required to show that a certain percentage of all their imports (55% was suggested), came from one or more Dominions. Inter-Dominion competition for the British market would thus be kept keen...
...seat. Instead she will clasp her hands behind her back and pace, shoulders hunched, up & down the aisles, back & forth in front of the lounges along the Chamber's rear wall. She will purse her lips, frown as though deep in thought, halt now & then to fix some speaking Senator with a sharp, doubtful glance. From time to time she will address the Chair to interject some comment, acid-humorous in intent-for her husband was the Senate's conscientious sarcastigator. Then she will resume her soft pacing through the aisles, around the back, shoulders hunched, pondering profoundly...
...Trenton, N. J., stands the New Jersey State Prison, isolated from the city by a 22-ft. wall. On top of the wall last week an electric wire needed repairing. An electrician leaned his ladder against the wall, went up to fix the wire. After him clambered four convicts, thrust him from the ladder, shot a guard atop the wall, dropped to the street outside. Before other guards knew what was happening they had disappeared around a corner, commandeered two automobiles and roared away...