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Located in the central part of the State 35 mi. west of Warren Gamaliel Harding's Marion, McGuffey lies in the mucklands around the Scioto River where the National Onion Growers Association controls 17,000 acres of onions and peppermint. In June the 700 men, women & children who weed the crop 10 to 12 hours a day for a maximum wage of 12 an hour struck for 35? an hour and an 8-hour day. The American Federation of Labor rushed in to organize the strikers who, finding that they got more out of the Relief Administration than they...
Since the Chilean peso was falling like a plummet, no foreign firm would take over the dam job. but Chileans decided to go ahead under an engineer from, Brento, Italy, swart, indomitable Ernesto Boso. Ulen & Co. had done the first quarter of the work. On the Limari River 200 mi. north of Valparaiso. Signer Boso raised a wall of rock and concrete which slowly backed up enough water to submerge the historic colonial settlement of Recoleta, a town more than 250 years old. Last to disappear was the battered cross atop Recoleta's parish church...
...carriers do not always come home to roost. Fortnight ago Ensign James Hiram Kelsey Jr. of the U. S. S. Lexington was lost when his plane fell into the sea during maneuvres. Last week Lieut. John Scott Graff of the U. S. S. Saratoga crashed in the Atlantic 24 mi. off Virginia, quickly disappeared with his plane. Luckier was his companion, Chief Radioman R. K. Kelly, who fought his way clear, was picked up by destroyers...
...from Hour-Havenne, Belgium one dawn last week rose Stratonauts Max Cosyns and Neere van der Elst, soared nearly ten miles, broke no records, obtained scientific data, sent out an SOS when their wireless developed defects, scared half the world into thinking they were dead, drifted 1,100 mi. in 14 hr. across five countries, landed safe & sound at Zinovlje, Jugoslavia...
...calmed down a little, it seemed to Angler Howell that something was amiss. The tuna was pulling at his line a little less sturdily and his runs were shorter. By midnight, the boat, which had been towed approximately 200 miles in two and a half days, was 60 mi. off Liverpool and Angler Howell realized that it was practically standing still. He reeled in his tuna slowly until it was close enough to gaff. Then began a battle to rope the tuna's tail...