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...worn out or sulky. Moscow ordered by telegraph "YOU MUST WIPE OUT YOUR DISGRACE." In most cases throughout Russia, statistics showed that during the first five days of nationwide Stakhanovism the workers increased their output, but that it fell during the next five days, as it became impossible to maintain this speedup. When Stakhanovism was first announced, higher pay for greater daily production was promised each worker but by last week, in plants where Stakhanovism had been regularly established, workers found that to earn as much as they did before they must now produce more goods. Plans to proclaim February...
...maintain our courage and our zeal...
There newshawks chattered at the extended press tables. Capitol policemen in uniform circulated through the moving throng, trying to maintain order. A little knot of elderly financiers from Manhattan stood by themselves like new arrivals to be introduced at a large reception. And everywhere cameramen swarmed, climbed over one another, mounted chairs & tables, formed a living pyramid above half a dozen Senators who sat, all but lost from sight, at a long table at the end of the room...
...cotton processing tax brought trading in cotton textiles to a halt. Prices were cut but not enough to satisfy buyers, who insisted that quotations must fully reflect the saving in taxes. Tire makers, who have been paying some $20,000,000 annually in cotton processing taxes, hoped to maintain present prices, saving the tax for themselves...
...Deep Water, Mo., Miss Swarthout has a Latin appearance well suited to a rigmarole about Spaniards in California and their efforts to hold their ancestral estates against early land-grabbers. Furthermore, the dual roles of Rosita Castro and Don Carlos, masked leader of the Spanish vigilantes, enable her to maintain a tradition which she inaugurated at the Metropolitan Opera as the page in Romeo and Juliet, of appearing in masculine costume. In other respects, Rose of the Rancho has more limited qualifications. Its story of how a U. S. Federal Agent (John Boles), dispatched to investigate the doings...