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...coast of Siberia. There for five long years six Russian meteorologists, their families and assistants, 44 souls all told, have lived in isolation. Last year the freighter Chelyuskin, commanded by hardy, hairy Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, was sent to take the colonists off their icebound island, deposit a new shift of weather observers. The ice pack closed in on the Chelyuskin in September, hugged it all winter, broke it in February. One man was lost but doughty Professor Schmidt transferred the remaining 101 persons in his charge to an ice floe, whence they were removed in a spectacular series...
...Cord officials were seen in mysterious flights to Lansing, Mich., where they were met by Reo officials. And Reo's old Mr. Olds could not bring himself to deny flatly any & all advances, declaring: "We have listened to what they have to say but have promised nothing." Lastly, a shift in the Cord personnel diverted no attention from the goings-on. Auburn's President W. Hubert Beal resigned to become right-hand man to Lucius Bass Manning, who is right-hand man to Errett Lobban Cord. To become active head of Auburn, Mr. Manning, now in complete charge of Cord...
Devoutly hoping that Mr. Moley's kind words really did mean a shift in the Washington wind, railroadmen nevertheless gave the highball to their long-awaited petition for rate increases. The request filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission last week called for a rise of as much as 10% on a vast and complex schedule of goods. If granted, the increases would yield about $170,000,000 of the $293,000,000 which railroadmen say they must have to meet their swelling bills...
...declared they were not union members. Ten days later the "strike" broke, on the ground that 13 union members had been discharged. But it was less a walk-out than a force-out. At 4 a. m. strikers scaled the yard fences, raided the plant, drove the night shift out with hardly a moment's grace to stop the machines...
...ordering $1,713,000 worth of false entries in the books of his now closed Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., of misapplying $600,000 in assets. On the stand Defendant Harriman, much improved physically and mentally since his half-mad nights from a sanatorium last year, craftily tried to shift the blame to his co-defendant and onetime executive vice president, Albert Murray Austin. The jury acquitted Austin on all counts...