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Typical reductions such as these are making a big dent in the rails' total estimated debt of over $10 billions. The continuation of this policy will put the roads in a position after the war to bid for traffic through rate reductions, and thus return to the fold of real competitive industry. This week ICC was working on a plan to make a certain amount of debt retirement mandatory...
Eddle Jeremiah, former Indian ice mentor, left the Hanover fold early this week, to accept a commission in the Navy, and the college lost little time in selecting Rondeau, who is heralded as the best stick-handler in collegiate hockey...
Eyewitnesses said the building seemed to fold up like a pack of cards, trapping most of the children under the wreckage and blasting others against a brick wall. Fires broke out. For the next few days Civil Defense workers, fathers & mothers of the victims and American and British soldiers labored to recover the dead and wounded. Many mothers learned the worst from the little shoes and blue hats & coats laid out neatly in a nearby church...
...Parole Board. The other three, all convicted of labor-union terrorism, were freed without Parole Board recommendations. In New York City only the Daily Worker, Communist organ, carried the news. Other papers ignored it for ten days. The Worker carried another story, welcoming the labor terrorists back to the fold. Then the New York World-Telegram dug up the story, belatedly revealed that Poletti had not consulted the Parole Board. Things began to pop. The austere, thorough New York Times reported: "As one of his last acts in office, it was learned yesterday, Governor Poletti commuted the sentence of Alexander...
...China's war effort. The main reason why his country's star continued to rise in spite of the stoppage of the flow of supplies, Pu explains, is that the Chinese Industrial Cooperative, inaugurated in Hankow in 1933 with a government grant of $5,000,000, served the three-fold purpose of maintaining army morale, stimulating civilian morale among millions of harassed refugees from occupied Chins, and mobilizing manpower, capital, and natural resources...