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...Dubinsky's vice presidents who set out to extend another feeler to Mr. Lewis in Washington, Mr. Green announced that the next peace move would have to come from C.I.O., that in the meantime A.F. of L. would be glad to take disillusioned C.I.O. unions back into the fold, whole or piecemeal...
...inclosed in an aviator's helmet and having, beneath the chin, a sort of bib or drool cloth. The hands are upraised in the standard posture of the guest of honor at a stickup and the figure then declines, round, rigid as a concrete pipe and innocent of fold or human line, to the waist, where it disappears into a bar rel. ... I, personally, will undertake tc set to work . . . and make a better statue of St. Francis...
...July 31, carry-over of U. S. cotton was 11,656,000 bales, an almost three-fold increase over a year ago. Since U. S. cotton consumption and exports last year totaled 11,432,000 bales, only 556,000 more than the estimated 1938-39 crop, prospects for a sizable reduction of this tremendous carry-over are dim indeed. Last week, cotton prices tumbled to 8.20? a lb., making loans mandatory under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace singled out cotton as "perhaps the most difficult single situation with which we are faced...
...hands of social-working Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Willis Williams, who at the age of six went to work in a torpedo factory. In spite of setbacks and criticism, Aubrey Williams pushed ahead with NYA. With the help of Executive Director Richard R. Brown, he set up a two-fold machine which gave spare-time academic work to students, part-time public work to vagrants. Across the U. S., youth won wages and self-confidence as they catalogued, filed, checked records, cleared parks and playgrounds, plowed, harrowed, reaped, graded, dumped, filled, drained, made heavy-duty roads and blue-shale tennis courts...
...specializing in toilet tissue, developing its technology steadily, and leading the industry in price-cutting, Scott Paper Co. increased its dollar sales 19-fold between...