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...from Irun by the victorious Whites last week were permitted to enter France on the Atlantic coast and put aboard "sealed trains" which soon delivered these Reds back into Spain at the other end of the Pyrenees on the Mediterranean coast at anarchist Barcelona. The Blum Cabinet, striving to maintain its precariously neutral position, explained that these Reds were only receiving the customary humane treatment accorded refugees, and that anyhow most of them paid for their tickets on the "sealed trains." The penniless were carried free. On the other hand Spanish Reds who escaped to Portugal were driven back into...
...sight. Yale University's Athletic Association announced that Yale football games this autumn will be broadcast by Atlantic Refining Co., which had paid $20,000 for the privilege. Quick to see the significance of Yale's precedent, advertising companies began negotiations with other Eastern colleges which maintain pretentious football teams. Atlantic Refining announced that it had too signed up Temple, Duke, the University of Virginia, Cornell University, Holy Cross, Franklin and Marshall, and hoped to get more. University of Michigan signed with Kellogg Co. (corn flakes). Princeton and Harvard insisted they were not in the market for radio...
Jesse Owens of the animal world is the cheetah, a species of Asiatic wildcat which can run 70 m.p.h. for distances up to 100 yards. For longer stretches the world's speed champion is the U. S. pronghorn antelope, which can maintain 60 m.p.h. for several miles, 35 m.p.h. almost indefinitely. Rancher Charles J. Belden of Pitchfork, Wyo. once chased a herd of antelope 27 miles in 45 minutes in his automobile. Nearly an eighth of the 40,000 pronghorn antelopes in the U. S. roam over Rancher Belden's 200.000 acres in the Meeteetsee Valley. Few years...
Unable to name the weak and treacherous employes RCA is supposed to have seduced, and unwilling to specify what secrets had been purloined, Philco nevertheless wailed: "-It has required the great-skill, invention, vigilance and effort successfully to develop and maintain such a business in the face of its highly competitive nature ... and particularly the competition of RCA ... by reason of its financial power and patent monopoly " By underhanded acts, complained Philco, RCA "is seeking further to extend and strengthen its domination and control of said industry...
...with fixing prices by: 1) operating two buying pools, one in East Texas, the other in Oklahoma and the nearby mid-continent fields, through which they "concertedly purchased large quantities of gasoline in spot transactions from independent refiners at artificial prices which they sought to and did establish and maintain as the going market prices"; 2) selling gasoline to some 4.000 jobbers under long-term contracts in which the price would be determined by the average of the spot market prices published in the Chicago Journal of Commerce and Platt's Oilgram...