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...gloated the German newspapers early last week. Yugoslavia had joined the Axis. That move would determine the course of life inside Yugoslavia (see p. 31), would shift the military balance in the Balkans. All over the world it would stand as another sign of the growing power of Hitler's new order and illustrate to Greece the folly of resistance. But the editors of Germany chiefly exulted in this...
...shift in radio frequencies will necessitate the readjustment of some 11,000,000 sets of the push-button variety. For instance, Chicago's WLS will move from 870 to 890 on the dial; New York's WABC from 860 to 880. For the privilege of enjoying automatic tuning after reallocation, U. S. listeners will have to spend in the neighborhood...
...create another awkward rendezvous. The climax to this engineer's nightmare is the subway entrance brooding in the middle. With these non-Euclidean facilities, the Square tries to serve two purposes--a shopping center for students and a transfer station for in-town travellers. Twelve thousand outsiders shift El cars every day. Six hundred busses carry thirty thousand passengers in, out, and through the dilemma. A paltry nine thousand scholars wander and mill about for eight hours a day. Then there's the pleasure traffic, trolleys, trucks and taxis. Thus the problem centers around two cureable factors--the great number...
Week before the Thompson shift General Hugh S(amuel) Johnson walked out on Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate (which discovered his unsuspected literary talents six years ago), signed up (at a reputed $50,000 a year) with Hearst's King Features. Explained the General, whose string has fallen more than 10% since election and his strong isolationist stand: "Some Scripps-Howard papers didn't seem to be very-sympathetic and I didn't want them to have to carry the column when they didn't want to." One such paper was the Tyler...
...Shift of Emphasis...