Word: railways
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...homeward-bound student eager to avoid packing worries, Railway Express suggests planning beforehand, and orderly packing to eliviate the usual troubles...
...liberal-capitalist economy" by stimulating private industry. The 40-hour week, darling of former Premier Blum's Popular Front, was abolished. The ordinary budget (exclusive of emergency arms expenditures) was balanced by increasing direct and indirect taxes ($265,000,000 and slashing expenses, 40,000 surplus State Railway workers alone being fired. To leave the capital market free to industry, M. Reynaud promised that the Government would float no long-term loans until May. The recovery program pinched almost everyone, but the most anguished cries came from the labor unions, whose protestant general strike failed...
...Lindsay, wife of the British Ambassador to the U. S. (see p. 15),* the King and Queen got a good press last week in the U. S. as well as Canada. Some of the credit went to fat, genial Walter S. Thompson, chief publicity agent of the Canadian National Railway System and pressherd of the Royal Tour. Some went to the press itself, which was notably well behaved. Most of it went to the King and Queen, who cor rected the mistakes of some of their representatives by showing a complete absence of side...
...Polish War Minister Tadeusz Kasprzycki arrived in Paris, first high Polish military man to visit France in three years. Ostensibly bent on "private business," he was nevertheless met at the railway station by French Chief of National Defense General Maurice Gamelin...
...civic banquet had to be altered and round tables replaced when officials belatedly realized that no one may sit with his back to the King. At the Chateau gold-plated microphones were installed for the King's first speech. Towns along the St. Lawrence heaped bonfires, decked railway stations. At Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies in preparation for their trip to Toronto to meet King George and Queen Elizabeth. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (Author John Buchan) collected a library for Their Majesties, books on Canadian...