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Iron Curtain. In Manhattan, Associated Fur Manufacturers Inc. ruefully disclosed that twelve live Russian sables sent to the U.S. (in trade for twelve U.S. minks) to be used for breeding purposes, had been sterilized before shipment from the U.S.S.R...
...more unions-the Marine Cooks and Stewards and the Fishermen & Allied Workers were scheduled for hearings this week. The Fur & Leather Workers would get the business in June-so would the United Furniture Workers unless a right-wing faction was successful in gaining control. After that the C.I.O. would be able to boast that it had done almost everything to preserve the "basic American trade union objectives" except to order George M. Cohan music on its picket lines...
...Master Plumbers (meeting in San Francisco) for being the alltime heroes of U.S. plumbers: Movie Director Cecil B. DeMille (for "selling the plumbing idea throughout the world by his favorite device of divesting some gorgeous creature-female-and filming her in a gold-plated or sunken or even fur-lined bathtub"), and Benjamin Franklin (for bringing back a copper, shoe-shaped bathtub from France...
More often the Voice really manages to convey the breadth and the vigor of the American land. A recent instance was the dramatized history of the Missouri Valley, including the Astor Fur Co. and Custer's Last Stand. The piece ended in this trite but nevertheless moving passage: "The great buffalo herds of yesterday live only in the songs of the West now, and where not long ago there were log cabins and small settlements, modern cities bloom-Kansas City, Omaha, Bismarck and all the others. Bridges cross the winding river, carry trains and automobiles from one bank...