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...Cole concluded. "Actually, the Coop should never be in the laundry cleaning business. We have more complaints--now understand, we don't have many--but we have more complaints there than we do on the merchandise side. That's why most department stores, to use an expression, do not 'monkey' with the laundry business...
Formosa's 160,000 remaining aborigines are happier, too. They do little work. Some of them sublimate their head-hunting desires by taking monkey skulls; others make a play for the tourist trade with performances of native dances. And now that the harsh days of the Japanese Guard Line are gone, the aborigines are free to wander down to Taipei for an occasional glimpse of civilization...
Settlement Rejected. The union bosses who had thrown the latest monkey wrench into the act were two mild-looking men, 58-year-old William P. Kennedy, president of 210,000 trainmen, and 62-year-old Roy 0. Hughes, president of 38,000 conductors. For 17 months, Kennedy and Hughes had been demanding that the carriers cut the work week in yards from 48 hours to 40, at the same time grant a 31?-an-hour wage boost so that yardmen would make as much money as when they worked the full 48. Actually, wages would be higher, since workers would...
This week the Senate finally got down to business on controls, but it was mostly monkey business. Virtually everyone with a homegrown industry or crop to protect hung an amendment on the bill exempting his pet. Said Delaware's John Williams: "Everyone will be exempt from this bill but the consumers." Such as it was, the Senate passed the bill (84-3). A House and Senate conference would have to straighten...
...realism' is found to embrace the phosphorescent skeleton paintings of Pavel Tchelitchew; a horrific problem picture by Alton Pickens, of the crowning of a dyed ape . . . and Henry Koerner's surrealist picture [TIME, March 27] of a barber playing the violin to his shrouded customers and a monkey-an entertainment which no doubt explains the increased cost of hairdressing in American establishments. Most of these paintings have been worked over again and again with fine and feeble brushstrokes, in the manner of late Victorian anecdotal art, and it is disheartening to find so much labor expended to produce...