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...upheld his position that C. I. O.'s industrial unions cannot risk dismemberment by joining any body dominated by A. F. of L. craftsmen. Said Electrical Worker James Barren Carey: "The C. I. O. wants peace˜without pieces." High Politics. Fitted into the new C. I. O. jigsaw are such diverse unions as Mr. Lewis' essentially conservative United Mine Workers, Sidney Hillman's liberal Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Harry Bridges' radical International Longshoremen & Warehousemen, Joe Curran's turbulent National Maritime Union. Their common, immediate aim, to organize the mass production industries, holds them soundly together...
...mass is increased. The increased mass must be due to energy of motion; therefore energy and mass are the same. Light, which is energy, must be influenced by gravitational fields. All these pieces of the Theory of Relativity fit into place as neatly as the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The completed puzzle is a coherent picture of the universe which has stood up under the test of numerous experiments...
...from resplendent London after the Coronation, an airplane was to take off late this week and, soaring eastward over the North Sea off the low coast of Europe, skirt that continent up to the jigsaw peninsula and archipelago which separate the North Sea from the Baltic. Over Germany's sandy Frisian Islands it would pass, over the fat fields of Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking...
...continents, Gondwanaland in the Southern Hemisphere and Eurasia in the Northern, cracked and sundered, slid like cakes of ice over the hot sub-crustal pool to form the present continents. Evidence: the coastlines of Western Europe and Africa and those of Eastern, North and South America almost fit like jigsaw puzzle pieces; similar fossils on the two sides seem to be remains of life that once inhabited one undivided land. During this drift mountains may have been thrust up along lines of weakness in the crust...
...booth at a London Fair, Queen Mary saw a jigsaw puzzle, tried to put it together, failed, bought it. Next day she made more news by wearing a feather-decked hat instead of her customary high toque...