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This fact, plus droughts and increasing mechanization of agriculture, he continued, means that the pinch is now being felt among many farm groups, an example being some 300 sharecropping families in Lee County, Texas who "are literally in danger of starvation as every penny of their share of the cotton crop has been required to pay their debts to the land-lords." Ordinarily, said Secretary Wallace, the landlords would carry the sharecroppers until next summer, but because of low cotton prices the landlords are almost as badly off themselves. "Local agencies, likewise, are utterly unable to provide any kind...
Lights were dimmer along Manhattan's cafe-cluttered 52nd Street last week as "cafe society" showed the pressure of Wall Street's three-month fall. But people in the market are not the only ones feeling the pinch these days. Figures released from Hollywood last week revealed that between 10% and 20% fewer U. S. citizens went to the movies this October than went a year ago. As a result, one studio which had budgeted some $3,000,000 for new construction cut it down...
Feeling the pinch of Recession, the automobile industry has had to pare production schedules, shorten hours. Fisher Body employes in many cases have been working only 24 hours per week, and when layoffs began the shop was apparently ripe for revolt. One strike early in the week was quickly discontinued, but the suspension of four of its leaders immediately brought on another outbreak. In Lansing, Fisher Body workers reached the point of taking a strike vote but direct pressure from U. A. W. President Homer Martin helped kill the move. Adding to the workers' discontent have been the grinding...
REGARDING YOUR PIECE ON RUSSIA TIME, SEPT. 27: FAMED NEW YORK TIMES REQUIRES NO "WRITE UPS" TO SUPPORT THE NO. 1 U. S. NEWSPAPER'S REPUTATION. TIMES'S NEWSHAWKS DENNY AND DURANTY ARE ON EQUAL FOOTING. DENNY MOSCOW CORRESPONDENT SINCE 1934; DURANTY 1921 TO 1934, LATER PINCH-HITTING WHEN DENNY ABSENT, EYE-WITNESSING, VACATIONING, FRONT PAGING. TIME'S OPINION DENNY "CAREFUL, FRANK." COLUMNIST BROUN'S OPINION DURANTY "EDITORIALIGHT DISGUISED AS NEWS-HAWK." DURANTY OPINION DURANTY "FACTSEEKER BEHIND FACTS." DURANTY OPINION TIME "ACE PUNGENT NEWS-PEPPER, NOW ACCUSED RE-MISSWARD SALT OF TRUTH...
...Deal" with Mussolini and next placed the Royal Navy on a $525,000,000 Rearmament footing, last week showed King George and Queen Elizabeth the new type gas mask of which 45,000,000 are being provided. It encloses both nose and mouth, is fairly comfortable. His Majesty, pinching his own nose together jocularly with his fingers, spoke of how the World War type of mask used to pinch noses. "He spoke while demonstrating," reported an attendant, "and the strong nasal tones emitted rocked the royal party with laughter...