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...this for the strike that San Francisco had last week. Other marine unions?seamen, pilots, cooks and stewards?jumped into the fray with demands of their own for pay, hours, union recognition. Hot-headed strike leaders welcomed alliance with open arms, for it gave them an opportunity to shake a bigger stick. When Joseph P. Ryan, national president of the International Longshoremen's Association, tried to negotiate a settlement on the basis of non-partisan control of the hiring halls, Leader Bridges and his embattled followers turned down the agreement because it did not provide for their allies. Their determination...
Last week Temperature Corp. opened its doors to the public in a sleek, black-walled showroom in Manhattan's Chrysler Building. Banker friends of Walter Chrysler Sr. dropped in the first day to shake hands with his son. Hotel managers popped in to have a look at the little, air-cooling, air-washing, dehumidifying device which Temperature Corp. will sell for $175 plus installation and condensing unit. "Airtemp" will be manufactured in Detroit by Amplex Manufacturing Co., a division of Chrysler Motors. Standing less than three feet high, the cabinet is attached to an ordinary electric base plug and water...
...Fundamentally Sound," The sequel to this patriotic Persian attempt to shake the foreigners down was a hasty visit to Teheran by Anglo-Persian's suave Board Chairman and "Petrol Diplomat." Sir John Cadman carried through the ensuing negotiations of high public policy on the private basis that "the Shah is my personal friend." The result was a new concession for Anglo-Persian running until 1993, but His Majesty squeezed down the area under lease to Anglo-Persian by more than half and while leaving Anglo-Persian in possession of its pipe lines deprived the British of exclusive Persian...
...fastest third quarter on record - 61.8. Then he really opened up and whipped around the last quarter in the incredible time of 59.1. After crossing the finish with a world's record of 4:06.7, he jogged 30 yd. up the track, turned around, trotted back to shake hands with Bonthron who had plodded in 40 yd. behind him. The last mile record (4:07.6) was set at Princeton a year ago by Jack Lovelock of Oxford. To see it broken by nearly a full second would have been enough, by itself, to make last week's track...
...Soule proceeds to fit current U. S. history to this revolutionary pattern, finds that the U. S. revolution is still in its preliminary stages. Capitalism is changing, but it still has a few tricks up its sleeve. ''The chills and fever of capitalism, observed since its infancy, shake and burn its whole body more drastically as it approaches old age." Wall Street, he implies, has not yet seen its last boom or its last crash. Author Soule disagrees with many a Republican who thinks a revolution took place when Roosevelt was elected. He sums up the New Deal...