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...bituminous tons for the year, against peacetime's normal 400,000,000 tons. But consumption, including shipments to Europe, has risen too, to more than 600,000,000 tons. The deficit has come off the national stockpile-now down to about 65,000,000 tons, providing a safety margin of only 37 or 38 days' supply. But the prime cause of last week's domestic shortages was that what coal the nation had was in the wrong places; the strikes had dislocated normal distribution. Labor trouble was another obstacle to righting distribution: while New Yorkers shivered last...
...stronger in the privacy of the voting booth than in polls, editorials or street-corner talk. In New York, no one in his right mind had conceded colorless Joe Hanley more than a 100,000 majority for Lieutenant Governor; Republican Joe Hanley trotted home with a 350,000 margin...
...third largest margin in New Jersey's history, the Republicans took over the governorship from Democrat Charles Edison-who didn't seem to mind. Wealthy, 69-year-old Walter Evans Edge (Hoover's Ambassador to France, ally of the senior Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate fight against the League of Nations) piled a plurality of 128,000 votes over Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, supported by Jersey City's Frank Hague, the Communists, A.F. of L., C.I.O., and Frank Sinatra...
...Many industries will not have a sufficient profit margin. A demand for too much in such an industry would simply result in closing the plants. Labor, like business, must fulfill its obligations to society. The alternative is government regulation...
Official reason: the ungracious one-vote margin by which the resolution was squeezed through. Dundee Socialists were agin' it ''till after...