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...sirens were sounded and the crew herded as many passengers as possible into lifeboats before the Washington was sunk by a torpedo. On the captain's orders, the ship's photographer clicked a record of the scene. In the chill dawn women and children began to pile into the boats. Faint light played over the flags painted on the Washington's sides, but the flag suspended between its funnels glowed under floodlights. Though ten minutes was not enough, there was no panic...
...beset would-be husbands should not miss. "Saturday's Children." For Warner's version of Maxwell Anderson's Pulitzer prize play is more than mere entertainment; it is as painfully instructive, as disillusioning and tragicomical as life itself. Marriage, you are told, is not a love again but a pile of grocery bills; and the revelation chills you to the core like a cold shower...
...manufacture of Buna-S, the German tire ersatz that shoes the wheels of Nazi military equipment, it is not yet ready for commercial production, nor have other synthetic rubbers made in the U. S. yet been shown commercially usable for tires. Last week, surveying its tiny stock pile, the U. S. rubber industry went into no panic, said not a word about the possibility of higher prices for tires. But the headlines helped speculators raise the price of spot rubber from 20? to a high of 25? a pound...
Formed in 1912 because President Taft (among others) wanted to hear the Voice of Business, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce today has some 750,000 members, 1,700 affiliated local Chambers, a de luxe Indiana limestone pile in Washington. There 3,000 C. of C. delegates last week gathered to let the Voice be heard. As it has been every year since 1934, its dominant note was anti-New Deal. But it had lost much of its bitterness, gained some of its optimism...
Florrie is the villainess of the comedy. She shows Sister Bobby how to trick Rims into marriage just before he is starting for Manila. At first the Rims Rossons live happily in their $22.50 flat over a garage. Then Bobby loses her job, Rims takes a cut, the bills pile up, the quarrels begin. Soon romance is as far behind as the rent. So Rims leaves Bobby...