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...business with three days of free rides for the Tovarishchi who helped build it. Driven through quicksand and swampy ground in two years of furious if ill-directed digging, largely by volunteer workmen, there are many things about Moscow's new subway to cause serious engineers to shake their heads, but it easily lives up to its motto: "The most beautiful subway in the world." Built, in the words of Transport Commissar Kaganovich, "to show people what the future will be like under Socialism." all the stations are panelled in rare marble, decorated with huge murals in fresco...
...were conducted not by Manny Rosenbaum but by a vigorous, grey-thatched Irishman named Louis T. Sayre, secretary of the company and its trustee in bankruptcy. Trustee Sayre stopped Manny Rosenbaum's salary last week and it was reported that Rosenbaum Grain Corp. was due for a big shake-up in personnel...
...tumbled the Chinese mud houses by tens of thousands, killed more than 3,000 Chinese, injured nearly 10,000. Estimated damage: 10,000,000 yen ($2,860,000). But since the few Japanese live in light wooden houses that shake without falling, scarcely a Japanese was hurt. More important, Formosa's earthquake left practically untouched Japan's oil fields and naval fortifications. Relief workers who swarmed over the scene reported that an astonishing number of Formosans had gone mad. The head-hunting "Green Savages" of Formosa, who had danced to their gods just before the quake struck, looked...
...Massachusetts hasn't any mountains suitable for aspiring Alpine climbers in need of a little closed season workout, the Mountaineering Club yesterday resorted to climbing down instead of up. About ten members, equipped with all the paraphernalia necessary for slab climbing, went down to the Quincy granite quarries to shake off the boredom of inactivity and receive instruction from Edward C. Streeter '36 and Dana B. Durand...
Traditional British policy strives to keep either France or Germany from becoming top dog. It was Lloyd George who saved Germany from Georges Clemenceau. This week it is His Majesty's Government who save the Fatherland from odium and much else by sending Sir John Simon to shake the flabby-fleshed hand which has just torn up the Treaty of Versailles...