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...South the strike for a 30-hour work-week at 40-hour pay, elimination of the stretch-out and union recognition, seemed to have reached its peak, settled down into an endurance contest. South Carolina strike leaders called off their "flying squadrons" of picketers, and most strikers stayed home. Important mills in the Carolinas bristled with bayonets. In Georgia, Governor Eugene Talmadge declared martial law, whipped up a "flying squadron" of his own-National Guardsmen who arrested and interned some 200 pickets, took control of troubled districts. The strike in the South remained roughly 40% effective...
...best of a bad bargain U. S. Lines stuffed $150,000 worth of improvements inside the Leviathan last spring and puffed her out across the Atlantic with some special advertising. By the time she had made the first round trip she had lost $143,000. Last week, at the peak of the travel season, she completed her fifth round trip less than half full. President P. A. S. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine, which controls operation of U. S. Lines, immediately announced that this money-losing monster's next stop would be its Hoboken morgue...
...uttering double-entendres without moving her upper lip, Paramount officials decided that she knew what she was doing. They gave her a free hand with her pictures, under the congenial supervision of Producer William Le Baron. The completion of her third picture last June coincided precisely with the peak of cinema reform agitation by the Legion of Decency. The Hays office called its original title, It Ain't No Sin, "dangerous." The New York State Censors refused to give the picture a license. Thereupon Paramount officials in Manhattan sent the film back to Hollywood for a new title...
...from data collected this summer are now being made in the Geology Department. The figures upon which they are working are the result of three months work by a combined Harvard-Dartmouth expedition which had as its two-fold purpose the ascent of Mt. Crillon's 12,728 foot peak in the Fairweather range of Alaska and the collecting of accurate information in the little-known field of glacier movements. The party, composed of 11 men under the leadership of Bradford Washburn '33, was divided into two groups; the climbing party of Adams Carter '36, Howard Kellog '37, Waldo Holcombe...
...passengers whose opinions on gold, Hitler, husbands, Russian food, literature, Disarmament, legs, do not make news of a kind. But at no time during the year is such news so plentiful as during the first ten days of September. Then ocean travel to the U. S. reaches its peak. By last week the Manhattan, the lie de France, the Majestic, the Aqui tania, the Bremen, Enropa, many a lesser ship had landed some 15,000, most of whom were not averse to sharing their views with their stay-at-home countrymen...