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...diggers do not know how old the great faces are, who carved them, or what their significance was. They will try to find out. They guess that the carvings must have served some purpose in awesome religious rites. The heads have no apparent kinship with any known Mayan sculpture. Biggest mystery: Tabasco heads are made of basalt, and the nearest known source of basalt is 100 miles away. The people who made them must have done a tall job of transportation...
...violating the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, the Justice Department began proceedings against Ethyl in 1937. By last November, the corporation's appeals from adverse decisions had carried the case to the U. S. Supreme Court. Last week, in a decision so far-reaching that no one dared guess at its extent, the Court (Justice Harlan Stone's opinion) held...
...what direction would he nod? Guesses: 1) toward the pro-Roosevelt Democratic slates, 2) toward Arthur Vandenberg. No one expected him to come to the aid of "Buster" Dewey. First guess seemed the best, for Bob La Follette is a veteran New Dealer, strong for every fibre of the President's domestic program, against him on only two major matters: La Follette is isolationist, believes fanatically in an if-you-can't-pay-don't-go fiscal policy. Messrs. Roosevelt & La Follette pair naturally, and each is beholden to the other. Yet Vandenbergers kept up their hopes...
Eleven Points. One guess was that the dictators talked of an Allied-German peace, with Italy and the U. S. as guarantors-if anyone could conceive of any terms now mutually acceptable or any that the U. S. people would be willing to underwrite. As Mr. Welles prepared to sail for home. Rome reported that he carried a Hitler eleven-point peace proposal. The points: 1) general disarmament; 2) formation of a small, independent Poland; 3) Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians to be allied to the Reich; 4) Austria forever in the Reich; 5) return of German colonies within 25 years...
...trade for aircraft plants and arsenals in Europe, particularly France, Great Britain and Sweden. In normal times exports take up 20-25% of machine-tool output. What part export business is now playing no one can say until the year's work is finally totted up. But best guess last week was that it was close to 50%. Toolmen talked of allotting 60% of production to domestic demands, no matter what orders came...