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...Pennsylvania's Joseph R Grundy, arch-lobbyist for manufacturers The sequence of recent events: 1) The Finance Committee by a vote of 7-to-4 first rearranged the manganese ore tariff on metal content, in effect increasing the duty above the 1 cent per Ib. level. 2) From Moscow came the announcement that U. S. Steel Corp. had signed a five-year contract with the Soviet for from 80,000 to 150,000 tons of Georgian manganese ore per annum. 3) Reconsidering, the Finance Committee reversed itself, voted 5-to-6 to free-list manganese ore, with a saving...
...overclothing of men were produced last week by Dr. Eugene L. Fisk of the Life Extension Institute in Manhattan. In the interests of science Dr. Fisk removed all the clothing from a dozen men and women, carefully weighed the respective garments, found that the average woman wore 2½ Ib. of clothing, the average man 8½. Itemizing the costume of a young woman and a man, apparently conservative, picked at random, he discovered...
Dress 8 oz. Suit 6 Ib...
...Ib. 6 oz. 10 Ibs...
Campolo. Perhaps the most interested spectator of the Schmeling-Uzcudun duel will be one Victorio Maria Campolo who last week arrived with friends in the U. S. from the Argentine. He stands 6 ft., 6½ in.; weighs 225 Ib.; scorns everybody's boxing ability but his own. Of his countryman Luis Firpo he said last week: "He is fat, he is disgusting, he weighs 275 pounds and looks like a wine barrel. But he intended coming to New York last spring anyway. He will not now because I am here...