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Chief significance of the 1932 program is that Russia, which has had her shoulder at the wheel for three years, must push even harder this year. The heavy industries of coal, metal, transportation, machine building, backbone of the Five-Year Plan, must meet the country's needs. Russia's "industrial giants"?Dnieprostroy (dam), Magnetogorsk (steel city in remote Ural foothills ) etc.?must be pushed to completion. Then the tired Russian shoulder will get a rest, heavy Russian feet may be better shod...
...Eunice is already suspected of a liaison with another member of the party, her sacrifice seems little more than justice to her fellows. Now Eunice realizes that the drum call has been a summons to her destiny. She goes over to the redskin camp to meet it. The pioneers push off toward Oregon to meet theirs...
...world, and young Steve Hamas, who was on the Pennsylvania State football team the night Loughran was knocked out by Jack Sharkey, climbed into the ring at Madison Square Garden where Loughran was beaten last month by King Levinsky (see below). Loughran, the favorite, came out cautiously, trying to push Hamas away with the left jab which was once the fast est punch possessed by any U. S. heavy weight. Hamas, unskilled but savage, won the first round by ignoring Loughran's left jab and punishing his body. His first punch in the second round, on Loughran...
Century Pacific got as far as Phoenix, started to push on to Tucson when American Airways appealed for protection of its pioneer rights to the Arizona State Corporation Commission. First result: a temporary order restraining Century from carrying passengers for hire between Phoenix and Tucson, pending a public hearing in March...
Appealing to "the friends of liberalism and progress," The Churchman said it had had "to push aside certain forms of available financial support, representing concentrated authority that would have used the journal to work its will." In its news columns The Churchman printed a statement of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, expressing distress at "the precarious financial condition" of religious journals. Pointing out that the General Convention of the Church had refused to permit it to make special grants to its press, the National Council said it spent more than $5,000 for advertising in 1931, hoped...